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Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2012, 15:42 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> But it would mean that you cannot naively run
>
>   echo $sha1 >.git/refs/heads/foo
>
> anymore. I suspect that the packed-refs conversion rooted out many
> scripts that did not use update-ref and rev-parse to access refs, but
> the above does still work today. So I suspect there would be some
> fallout. Not to mention that older versions of git would be completely
> broken, which would mean we need a lengthy deprecation period while
> everybody upgrades to versions of git that support the reading side.

We have that "core.repositoryversion" thing, so we could treat it just like "update-index --index-version 4" to make it a "flag day event for each repository, on the day of end-user's choice".

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Message 27 of 52 in “Feature request: fetch --prune by default”
  1. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  2. Jeff KingJul 19, 2012
  3. Dan JohnsonJul 19, 2012
  4. Stefan HallerJul 19, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  6. Jeff KingAug 21, 2012
  7. Sam RobertsJun 20, 2013
  8. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  9. Konstantin KhomoutovJul 19, 2012
  10. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  11. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  12. Johannes SixtJul 20, 2012
  13. Alexey MuranovJul 20, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  15. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  16. Dan JohnsonJul 19, 2012
  17. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  18. 0/3 reflog graveyardJeff King, Jul 19, 2012
  19. 1/3 retain reflogs for deleted refsJeff King, Jul 19, 2012
  20. Alexey MuranovJul 19, 2012
  21. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  22. Alexey MuranovJul 20, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2012
  24. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  25. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2012
  28. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  30. Michael HaggertyJul 20, 2012
  31. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  32. Johannes SixtJul 20, 2012
  33. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  34. Alexey MuranovJul 22, 2012
  35. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJul 26, 2012
  36. Alexey MuranovJul 26, 2012
  37. Matthieu MoyJul 26, 2012
  38. Jeff KingJul 26, 2012
  39. Alexey MuranovJul 26, 2012
  40. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2012
  41. Jeff KingJul 26, 2012
  42. Alexey MuranovJul 22, 2012
  43. Alexey MuranovJul 22, 2012
  44. Jeff KingJul 22, 2012
  45. Alexey MuranovJul 22, 2012
  46. Jeff KingJul 22, 2012
  47. Johannes SixtJul 20, 2012
  48. 2/3 teach sha1_name to look in graveyard reflogsJeff King, Jul 19, 2012
  49. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2012
  50. Jeff KingJul 20, 2012
  51. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2012
  52. 3/3 add tests for reflogs of deleted refsJeff King, Jul 19, 2012

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