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Re: git pull for update of netdev fails.

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 23, 2006, 04:00 UTC
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<20060923040035.GB18105@spearce.org>
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<20060923034407.GF8259@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
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> Yes, I agree that this really is a problem, but that's a fundamental
> limitation. At least for StGIT-maintained floating branches the latest
> bleeding edge StGIT could fix that. (Except that the problem outlined by
> Linus is present here as well, first prune will wipe your older patch
> versions and your patch log will be useless - Catalin? Can we store the
> older patch versions references in something like
> .git/refs/patches-old/?) And except that it does that only for you -
> there should be a way to conveniently mirror (clone+pull) the patch
> stack setup.

Why not change reflog to store the last n values or the last n days (obtained from .git/config file) as refs under refs/prior-heads ?

I can see the same concept of ref history being useful even for core git-rebase and doing it this way would also give it to StGIT without Catalin needing to change code.

But it doesn't help git bisect.

Of course a looooong time ago when I first implemented reflog support this was suggested but not implemented at the time due to the high cost per ref. Now that we have Linus' packed refs available this may not be nearly as much of a problem.

-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Stephen HemmingerSep 20, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  10. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  13. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  18. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  22. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  24. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  25. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  26. Shawn PearceSep 23, 2006
  27. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  28. Catalin MarinasSep 23, 2006
  29. Catalin MarinasSep 23, 2006
  30. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  31. Catalin MarinasSep 25, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  33. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  34. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  35. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  36. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  37. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  38. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  39. Krzysztof HalasaSep 20, 2006
  40. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  41. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  42. Johannes SchindelinSep 21, 2006
  43. Jeff GarzikSep 20, 2006

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