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Re: Data Integrity & un-Commited Branches

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Sep 15, 2007, 13:59 UTC
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"Nikodemus Siivola" <nikodemus@random-state.net> writes:
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> One thing that I've been bitten a couple of times is that
> I think I'm on branch X, which should be clean, whereas
> I'm really on branch Y with uncommitted changes. Then I
> checkout another branch, and see the uncommitted work -- and
> given that I have a couple of dozen related feature branches
> in my tree it may take a while to figure which branch the
> uncommitted work came from.
"Take a while"?  What's wrong with git-reflog?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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  1. Brian Scott DobrovodskySep 15, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceSep 15, 2007
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  5. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2007
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  7. Jan HudecSep 15, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceSep 15, 2007
  9. Nikodemus SiivolaSep 15, 2007
  10. David KastrupSep 15, 2007
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