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Re: Keeping reflogs on branch deletion

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2008, 20:17 UTC
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El 14/2/2008, a las 18:57, Jeff King escribió:
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> Of course the 'bar' commit is not lost. My point is not that you are
> losing commits this way, it is that finding the commit you wanted
> becomes more difficult (e.g., asking "what was at the tip of the  
> branch
> when it was deleted").

I agree that keeping around reflogs for deleted branches would be a nice convenience, provided they were pruned after an appropriate interval. Space isn't really the concern, but clutter is, and that can be fixed with pruning.

Cheers, Wincent

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Message 14 of 15 in “A couple branch questions”
  1. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2008
  2. David SymondsFeb 14, 2008
  3. Bill LearFeb 14, 2008
  4. David SymondsFeb 14, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2008
  6. Keeping reflogs on branch deletionBrian Downing, Feb 14, 2008
  7. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2008
  9. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2008
  10. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2008
  11. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2008
  12. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2008
  13. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2008
  14. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 14, 2008
  15. Jakub NarebskiFeb 14, 2008

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