Re: [PATCH] logging branch deletion to help recovering from mistakes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2010, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmxoiqeoq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikbsyFUzZeu8R6yAND6spV6OnvYL08gYZ+ZgJCh@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> +#define BRANCH_DELETION_LOG "DELETED-REFS"
>> +
>
> Should this special log be mentioned in git-update-ref.txt or
> gitrepository-layout.txt?

Perhaps, but I wasn't sure if this patch itself is a good idea to begin with. Not the problem it tries to solve, but its approach.

For example, this cannot be shown with "reflog show" or "log -g" due to the way these frontends locate the reflog file to read (the logic wants to have an underlying ref).