From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:39:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] logging branch deletion to help recovering from mistakes
Message-ID: <20101207183930.GA27340@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101207183739.GB3725@spearce.org>

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:37:39AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Yes, you are right.  We should instead let the normal reflog expire
> action do its work here, and delete the empty log file when it is
> finally empty.
> 
> I guess we also need repack and prune to enumerate these deleted
> reflogs and retain the objects their records point to.

Definitely. I sort of assumed all of those things just traversed
.git/logs blindly without regard to whether there was a ref, which would
handle this automagically. But maybe that is not the case.

Is there a reason to require that each log is specifically tied to a
ref?

-Peff