Re: RFC: reflog for deleted branches
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- Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date
- May 3, 2012, 22:10 UTC
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Am 03.05.2012 23:37 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> The itch is legit, but I doubt a "special log for deleted branches" is a > good design. Why do you limit yourself only to a single "last" commit?
That was just the first idea ;)
> Wouldn't it be a better design to save away the entire reflog for the > branch when a branch is deleted, possibly with expedited expire rule for > such a reflog?
The "normal" reflog cannot be used if you just create and then delete a branch - the reflog is empty in this case. A special "deleted" entry pointing to the SHA1 of the branch is needed. Also the question is how to handle the case that a user creates and deletes a new branch with the same name.
All in all, I (and lots of other users) would be happy if this issue could be addressed in one of the next releases. :)
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