From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:17:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] git-repack --max-pack-size
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705011315180.6574@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vps5k5uzt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> I was not sure if that is even a good idea, and I am now
> >> inclined to think that keeping the failed attempt history is
> >> probably better than potentially causing confusion to people who
> >> follow 'next'.  But it _is_ a possibility to reset 'next' to
> >> 'master'.
> >
> > And what is the advantage of doing that, exactly?
> 
> Not much and that is why I am not sure if that is a good idea,
> but one thing is:
> 
> 	$ git log master..next
> 	$ git log --no-merges master..next
> 
> would start showing what are still pending in next without
> noise.

If you do so, then please tag the branch before resetting it.  I think 
it contains valuable data that would get lost otherwise.


Nicolas