From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:43:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase behaviour changed?
Message-ID: <7vvewjb5xz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90601170033y334d111fjed277fc787a2e523@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> GIT won't literally lose them,  someone could run git-fsck and fish
> out the dangling heads from the repo, and after a bit of spelunking
> recover them, but it's suddenly a really tricky operation.

"git-lost-found".

You are right.  We will lose #1 and #2, (although the "already
up to date" might catch some cases) and this _is_ dangerous.  I
need to do something about this soon.

Thanks for the discussion.


[Footnote]

*1* ... or #1 and #3 --- sorry, my "one of them picked up by
upstream" scenario description was inconsistent in the previous
message.