reflog by default?, was Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141459160.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061214120518.GL1747@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:

>  * Normal working repository (wants reflogs);
>  * Bare private (backup) repository (wants reflogs);
>  * Bare shared repository (probably doesn't want reflogs);
>  * Import generated repository (probably doesn't want reflogs);

In contrast, I think that reflogs make lots of sense for shared repos, and less sense for bare (non-shared) ones...

So, I'd say: enable reflog by default, unless it is bare _and_ not shared. But then, cmd_init_db() no longer knows if it was called with "--bare" or not.

Ciao, Dscho

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