Re: Recovering Committed Changes in a Detached Head?

    Nguyen> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:

    >> While rflog is cool, I can't help but think that git could be
    >> even more helpful for these scenarios.

    >> First, maybe git could create refs for these automatically,
    >> perhaps with a name like orphans/1?  Maybe these refs would only
    >> be visible via git branch --orphans.

    Nguyen> If I remember correctly, we don't have private ref
    Nguyen> namespace, any refs created automatically this way could be
    Nguyen> pushed out by accident.

A way to avoid this could be to deal with this like git-stash works, instead of relying on the branch machinery.

But anyway, I think there is a trade-off between keeping some references to some hypothetical future use and preventing the garbage collector to reclaim useless objects...