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Re: [RFC/PATCH] Enhance core.logallrefupdates

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 8, 2006, 20:15 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>    Come to think of it, it might make sense to change the
>>>    meaning of "true" to do what this patch does.  I do not think
>>>    of reasons to create missing reflog for tags automatically
>>>    anyway.
>>
>> If we change meaning of "true", perhaps (just in case in case) we
>> should add "all" value?
> 
> Didn't I just say that I do not think of reasons to do so ;-)?
> 
> Saying "just in case" is not enough.  You need to say at least
> "this hypothetical workflow which requires to update refs/xxx
> and doing automated reflog creation only under refs/heads makes
> that workflow less convenient".

If I remember correctly there was example of workflow which did fetch remote heads to local tags. But I'm not sure if this reflog made sense with that workflow.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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