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Re: bug related to branches using / in name

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 28, 2008, 04:57 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> As as long your "equivalent of" means "branch -d"; we need to kill off
> both the ref and its reflogs. And therefore...
> ...
> The one key difference between rewinds and branch deletion is that the
> latter will kill off the reflog, making the history inaccessible. You
> can always still access rewound or rebased work via the reflog.
Hmm, you are right.

I somehow still had a vague distant memory from late 2006 when we did not have reflogs for remotes/ hierarchy.

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Message 12 of 13 in “bug related to branches using / in name”
  1. Simon Holm ThøgersenJun 26, 2008
  2. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  3. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  4. Simon Holm ThøgersenJun 27, 2008
  5. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  6. fetch: report local storage errors in status tableJeff King, Jun 27, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  8. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  9. 2/2 fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to updateJeff King, Jun 27, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  11. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiJun 28, 2008

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