From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:18:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git auto-repack is broken...
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1112071912570.2907@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20111207225318.GA21852@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Jeff King wrote:

> 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