Re: [PATCH 2/2] Protect commits recorded in reflog from pruning.

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 18, 2006, 14:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20061218140813.GA32446@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6uxzgjb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> This teaches fsck-objects and prune to protect objects referred
> to by reflog entries.

Nice!

But its not enough.

  $ git-repack -a -d
  $ git reset --hard HEAD^
  $ git-repack -a -d
  $ git reset --hard HEAD@{1}

that last reset would fail now, wouldn't it? pack-objects needs to know it should be pulling in the objects stuff reachable from reflogs too.

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