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Re: git auto-repack is broken...

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2011, 22:53 UTC
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<20111207225318.GA21852@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:12:14PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Maybe  FETCH_HEAD should have a reflog too?

That might be nice. However, there is a complication, in that FETCH_HEAD may contain many sha1s, but each reflog entry only has room for a single sha1 transition. You could obviously encode it as a series of reflog entries, but then "git show FETCH_HEAD@{1}" is not very meaningful.

-Peff
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