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Re: git auto-repack is broken...

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Dec 8, 2011, 00:18 UTC
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:12:14PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > Maybe  FETCH_HEAD should have a reflog too?
> 
> That might be nice. However, there is a complication, in that FETCH_HEAD
> may contain many sha1s, but each reflog entry only has room for a single
> sha1 transition. You could obviously encode it as a series of reflog
> entries, but then "git show FETCH_HEAD@{1}" is not very meaningful.

What does "git show FETCH_HEAD" do now? If it shows only one (presumably the first) SHA1 then its reflog doesn't have to be smarter, which would properly cover most cases already. I certainly never did a multi-ref fetch myself.

Nicolas
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  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 2, 2011
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  4. Jeff KingDec 2, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2011
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  8. Jeff KingDec 2, 2011
  9. Brandon CaseyDec 3, 2011
  10. Nicolas PitreDec 7, 2011
  11. Jeff KingDec 7, 2011
  12. Nicolas PitreDec 8, 2011
  13. Jeff KingDec 8, 2011
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  15. Jeff KingDec 8, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2011
  17. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2011
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