git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH 2/2] builtin-reflog: fix deletion of HEAD entries

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2008, 01:01 UTC
Message-ID
<7vd4kh4r9m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<7vhc9t4s2c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
Show 10 quoted lines
> Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> writes:
>
>> dwim_ref() used to resolve HEAD to its symlink (like refs/heads/master),
>> making a call to 'git reflog delete HEAD@{1}' to actually delete the second
>> entry in the master reflog.
>>
>> This patch makes a special case for HEAD (as that's the only non-branch
>> reflog we keep), fixing the issue.
>
> What happens to remotes/origin/HEAD that points at remotes/origin/master?
Perhaps this might work better?
 builtin-reflog.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-reflog.c b/builtin-reflog.c
index 0c34e37..a48f664 100644
--- a/builtin-reflog.c
+++ b/builtin-reflog.c
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static int cmd_reflog_delete(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (!dwim_ref(argv[i], spec - argv[i], sha1, &ref)) {
+		if (!dwim_log(argv[i], spec - argv[i], sha1, &ref)) {
 			status |= error("%s points nowhere!", argv[i]);
 			continue;
 		}
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Pieter de Bie
Message 4 of 9 in “reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'”
  1. 1/2 reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'Pieter de Bie, Aug 9, 2008
  2. 2/2 builtin-reflog: fix deletion of HEAD entriesPieter de Bie, Aug 9, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  5. Pieter de BieAug 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SixtAug 10, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  8. Pieter de BieAug 10, 2008
  9. builtin-reflog: Allow reflog expire to name partial refPieter de Bie, Aug 10, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.