Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Jul 11, 2010, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20100711065505.GA19606@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <m3lj9jknlr.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 02:57:35PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> It's unfortunately not so easy.  The problem you have to solve is D/F
> conflict: if you have 'foo/bar' branch, you can't create 'foo' branch,
> but after deleting 'foo/bar' you want to be able to create 'foo'
> branch and reflog for 'foo' branch.

I'm going to read up on Jonathan's pointers. But I do not really see the problem above. If the reflog already exists, the new branch simpliy continues using it. So if the branch is re-created, it's as if the branch had never been deleted.

Or possibly we add a special reflog entry which points the branch to a zero sha to signify that the branch had been deleted.

Clemens