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Re: can we prevent reflog deletion when branch is deleted?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 14, 2013, 08:07 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:56:07AM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
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> > Whatever it was that happened to a hundred or more repos on the Jenkins
> > project seems to be stirring up this debate in some circles.
> 
> Making us so curious ... and then you just leave us hanging there ;-)
> 
> Any pointers to this debate?

I do not know about any particular debate in git circles, but I assume Sitaram is referring to this incident:

  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jenkinsci-dev/-myjRIPcVwU/t4nkXONp8qgJ

in which a Jenkins dev force-pushed and rewound history on 150 different repos. In this case the reflog made rollback easy, but if he had pushed a deletion, it would be harder.

-Peff
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  7. Sitaram ChamartyJun 1, 2013
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