Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2010, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <201007192236.21786.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C448879.4040202@workspacewhiz.com>

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Joshua Jensen wrote:

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> My brain has become muddied with all the ~2 stuff.  Explain again why it 
> can't be as simple as this?
> 
> git branch -d integration
> 
> git reflog
> 
> 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)

Because 'integration' branch nowadays might have been never checked out, and not be in HEAD, even though 'git branch -d integration' works. Stuffing unrelated events in HEAD reflog, instead of having it be action history of HEAD symref is IMVHO a bad idea.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland