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Re: User's mailing list? And multiple cherry pick

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 4, 2008, 09:47 UTC
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<200806041147.53523.jnareb@gmail.com>
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David wrote:
[...]
> In your example, you still have a TMP "rollback" point if you need to
> rewind master in the event that the merge into master goes badly.

And you have ORIG_HEAD and reflog (master@{1}, master@{2} etc.) as safety net. Reflog is now enabled by default.

Besides unless you run prune in the meantime, even without reflogs you would be able to recover using lost-found / git-fsck output.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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