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Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Jul 19, 2010, 19:34 UTC
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:16:41AM -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote:
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> 
> 0000001 HEAD@{0}: (fake)checkout: moving from integration to master
> (0000001)
> 8000000 HEAD@{1}: branch -d: Deleting integration
> 0000001 HEAD@{2}: (fake)checkout: moving from master to integration
> (8000000)

That does not fit very well with the current definition of the HEAD reflog.

But I do like the idea. We could append branch deletions to .git/log/deleted, which otherwise behaves exactly like the HEAD reflog. And we simply do not keep the reflogs of deleted branches.

Clemens
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