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Re: reflog weirdness

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2007, 00:06 UTC
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
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> () Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> () Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:01:55 -0800
>
>    Was it a buggy "git commit" command, or a bad commit log
>    message was fed to "git commit" by the user, and there is
>    nothing for me to worry about?
>
> i'm sorry, even though it was only a couple days ago, the actual
> events are far back in my memory, so i can't say.  i wouldn't
> worry about it -- probably user error.  (i'm new w/ git.  most of
> the time i drive it from w/in emacs, which is well behaved; it is
> when i leave that comparative safety to do some flailing from the
> command-line that things go weird.)
>
> i suppose one way to improve git would be to test how it handles
> interruption (control-c in the middle of a commit, for example).
> a bit tricky to arrange (reproducibly), though...
>
> now i go search the docs for how to replace that log message.
"git-rebase -i"
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