From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:35:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branches with git-branch and reflog questions
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701232232480.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wllo2p6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Aren't /all/ the logged refs under "refs/" these 
> > days?
> 
> Yes, so what.  It's not a big deal, and it's too late to change,
> isn't it?
> 
> Seriously, I think with addition of 'git log --walk-reflogs' and
> 'git show-branch --reflog', there is less reason for an end user
> to look at the raw .git/logs/ directory these days.

How about introducing the shortcut "-g" for "--walk-reflogs"? It is not 
yet taken AFAICT.

> And we might want to allow reflogs on detached HEAD someday, although I 
> personally think it goes against what detached HEAD is -- it is of a 
> very temporary nature.

But so are reflogs. They go away after some time.

Disk space is cheap.

Ciao,
Dscho