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Re: setting up tracking on push

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 11, 2009, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20090311164030.GA5977@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20090311190207.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:02:07PM +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
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> I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you want to keep the entries in
> the reflog that were made before you pushed your branch to make it
> public in this scenario.
> 
> Especially because you are relinquishing the authority to the public
> repository by wishing to be able to "track" it, you can't rewind the
> branch beyond the point you initially pushed out any more. At that
> point, wouldn't it make more sense to drop the old reflog data and
> pretend as if the branch were fetched from the branch from your public
> repository it now follows, just like everybody else does?

That only means that you cannot rewind back to some spot in the reflog. There is nothing to say that you cannot pull useful ideas from the reflog that you thought were failed experiments, and apply them as new commits.

-Peff
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Message 27 of 38 in “setting up tracking on push”
  1. Miles BaderMar 6, 2009
  2. John TapsellMar 6, 2009
  3. Jay SoffianMar 6, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
  5. Miles BaderMar 6, 2009
  6. Jeremy O'BrienMar 6, 2009
  7. Jay SoffianMar 6, 2009
  8. Miles BaderMar 6, 2009
  9. Marc BranchaudMar 10, 2009
  10. Jeff KingMar 10, 2009
  11. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  12. Jeff KingMar 11, 2009
  13. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  14. Jeff KingMar 11, 2009
  15. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  16. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  17. Jeff KingMar 11, 2009
  18. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  19. Jakub NarebskiMar 24, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2009
  21. Miles BaderMar 11, 2009
  22. Miles BaderMar 11, 2009
  23. Jay SoffianMar 11, 2009
  24. Marc BranchaudMar 11, 2009
  25. Jeff KingMar 11, 2009
  26. Nanako ShiraishiMar 11, 2009
  27. Jeff KingMar 11, 2009
  28. John M. DlugoszMar 12, 2009
  29. Jay SoffianMar 12, 2009
  30. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2009
  31. Jay SoffianMar 12, 2009
  32. Jay SoffianMar 12, 2009
  33. Jay SoffianMar 12, 2009
  34. John M. DlugoszMar 15, 2009
  35. Jay SoffianMar 15, 2009
  36. John M. DlugoszMar 16, 2009
  37. Jay SoffianMar 16, 2009
  38. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2009

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