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Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 18, 2006, 08:09 UTC
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Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Saturday 2006, December 16 23:10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>    * revisions recorded in the reflog can be pruned out,
>>      rendering some entries in reflog useless.
>
> Can I suggest that it should be fine to prune reflog entries but that the act 
> of pruning be a log entry itself?

I do not understand. What would that "pruning event" log entry would say?

By definition each reflog entry says "it was pointing at this object before, and it was changed by this user to point at that object at this time and the reason for the change was this".

I personally do not think recording "at this point these things were pruned" makes _any_ sense whatsoever --- if you care about the pruned objects that simply means you pruned them before you are ready to lose them. But even if for whatever reason you choose to log that anyway, I have a feeling that that record does not belong to the reflog itself.

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Message 12 of 28 in “What's cooking in git.git (topics)”
  1. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiDec 16, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2006
  4. Yann DirsonDec 17, 2006
  5. Josef WeidendorferDec 17, 2006
  6. Brian GernhardtDec 17, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceDec 17, 2006
  8. revision: introduce ref@{N..M} syntax.Junio C Hamano, Dec 17, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsDec 17, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2006
  11. Andy ParkinsDec 17, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2006
  13. Andy ParkinsDec 18, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceDec 18, 2006
  15. 1/2 add for_each_reflog_ent() iteratorJunio C Hamano, Dec 18, 2006
  16. 2/2 Protect commits recorded in reflog from pruning.Junio C Hamano, Dec 18, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceDec 18, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2006
  19. 1/2 Move in_merge_bases() to commit.cJunio C Hamano, Dec 19, 2006
  20. 2/2 git reflog expireJunio C Hamano, Dec 19, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceDec 19, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceDec 19, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsDec 19, 2006
  25. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2006
  26. Linus TorvaldsDec 20, 2006
  27. Shawn PearceDec 19, 2006
  28. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2006

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