Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2007, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702061632180.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0702060726o17cd3521u633a6c4deb07b9d3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 2/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > > * git-lost-found
> > >
> > >   Although it has served us well, I think it is about to outlive
> > >   its usefulness, thanks to the recent "reflog by default"
> > >   change.
> > >
> > 
> > Nonono. Please no. This has saved me more times than I can even care
> > to remember. Especially whenever I'm teaching newcomers how to git.
> > I really wouldn't want to not have it there in case its needed and
> > some schmuck upgrades git and then loses something vital because he
> > forgot to enable the reflog on an old repo.
> 
> It's functionality is superseded by "git fsck --unreachable",
> see this discussion.

AFAICT lost-and-found _connects_ the objects to files, and as such is easier to browse after running the command (which is expensive).

If you _have_ to lose lost-and-found, why not resurrect the functionality as an option to fsck?

Ciao, Dscho