From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 06:27:01 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: reflog for deleted branches
Message-ID: <4FA376B5.50804@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr4sdfw7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano skrev 2012-05-04 01.05:
> Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de> writes:
>
>> The "normal" reflog cannot be used if you just create and then delete a
>> branch - the reflog is empty in this case.
>
> I somehow thought we discussed about the lack of "creation" event.
> Perhaps it is sufficient to create a reflog entry for such then?

We have the create event (oldd=0000...), if we just don't delete the log and add
a destroy event (newid=000000).

A bit trickier with the current reflog design is the case where you
delete branch foo and then create the branch foo/bar. One way would be
to append a "." to the leaf in the refs directory tree. Older readers
wouldn't understand that to there's a compatibility issue.

-- robin