Re: [TOY PATCH] git-resurrect: find traces of a branch name and resurrect it

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <200901201450.53450.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <200901201057.18127.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

On Tuesday 2009 January 20 10:57:17 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

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>On Tuesday 2009 January 20 03:01:50 Thomas Rast wrote:
>>It was really intended as a toy patch, but if people find it useful
>>(Boyd?) I can add the rest of the options so that all searches can be
>>chosen independently, and shape it as a "real" contrib patch.
>
>I'll test it out later today and get back to you.

In my particular case, it wasn't useful without the -m option, but I understand why it is not the default.

I think it could be quite nice; "undelete"-type commands are generally well-received by users and when run against reflogs alone, that's what the command is.

It's useful enough to me that I'd love to see it mainlined.

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