From: Ronan Keryell Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:46:31 GMT Subject: Re: Recovering Committed Changes in a Detached Head? Message-ID: <87k48efvzc.fsf@an-dro.info.enstb.org> In-Reply-To: >>>>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 16:52:11 +1100, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy said: Nguyen> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Martin Fick 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... -- Ronan KERYELL |\/ Phone: +1 408 844 HPC0 HPC Project, Inc. |/) Cell: +33 613 143 766 5201 Great America Parkway #3241 K Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com Santa Clara, CA 95054 |\ skype:keryell USA | \ http://hpc-project.com