Re: [PATCH] Enable reflogs by default in any repository with a working directory.
- From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
- Date
- Dec 14, 2006, 23:18 UTC
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- <20061214231832.GF26202@spearce.org>
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- <20061214231038.GC5147@fieldses.org>
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that > > they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot > > use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly > > entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really > > meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2). > > Stupid question--I assume a mention in the reflog doesn't count as a > real reference to an object, so they won't save you in the case when you > pruned recently?
Not a stupid question. Your assumption is correct, its not a real reference, so prune will remove things that the log mentions but that refs don't currently mention.