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Re: Deleting remote branches with git-branch and reflog questions

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2007, 13:14 UTC
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On Tuesday 2007 January 23 13:02, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Why does the reflog directory .git/logs need to store the refs/
> > directory? Aren't /all/ the refs under "refs/" these days?
>
> No. HEAD isn't, nor is ORIG_HEAD, and possibly others.

They're all special cases aren't they? They are symrefs. I don't think they are reflogged at all (they certainly don't appear in my .git/logs directory.

Perhaps I should rephrase... aren't /all/ the logged refs under "refs/" these days?

Andy
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