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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #03; Sun, 15)

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Nov 16, 2009, 00:30 UTC
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> Heya,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 23:26, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> > My initial cleanup for "Allow helper to map private ref names into normal
> > names" was wrong (and the original was supposed to be RFC, and isn't
> > signed-off); I identified the bug he reported in it, but haven't gotten
> > positive test results from him yet, and the series obviously needs a
> > proper version rolled in before it goes into next.
> 
> Sorry, I tested, got primary positive results, then wanted to test
> something else and instead of:
> ~/code$ rm -rf test
> 
> I did:
> ~/code$ rm -rf git
> 
> I hate it when my fingers don't listen. Anyway, I ^C-ed and managed to
> save my worktree, but most of my git/.git was gone already. I'll get
> back to you tomorrow with more results since the time I was going to
> spend on running it through valgrind was wasted trying to recover my
> git repo :P.

Ouch. I remember one day when I got some old code all cleaned up for my initial commit, and was about to type "cvs import", but decided I should get rid of the editor cruft first. So I typed "rm *~", but missed one key.

	-Daniel
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  2. Daniel BarkalowNov 15, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierNov 15, 2009
  4. Daniel BarkalowNov 16, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009
  6. Peter WeselohNov 15, 2009
  7. James PickensNov 16, 2009
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