Re: ghost refs

From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Date: Apr 20, 2010, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20100420120228.GM17930@lake.fysh.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100420115124.GB22907@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

>  2. Make a refs/dead hierarchy so that the reflogs don't interfere with
>     new branches. This just pushes off the problem, though, for when
>     you try to delete "foo/bar" and see that "refs/dead/foo" is already
>     blocking its spot in the reflog graveyard.

This is easily solved by tweaking the name for dead reflogs. logs/dead_refs/foo~ doesn't clash with logs/dead_refs/foo/bar~.

You might also want to stick a sequence number into the filename, for when you delete more than one foo/bar branch.

-zefram