From: Jakub Narebski Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:08:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce git-mirror, a tool for exactly mirroring another repository. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vac3covlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sergey Vlasov writes: > >> BTW, I was thinking about the possibility to save removed refs under, >> e.g., refs/old/`date -I`/; maybe even non-fast-forward refs could be >> saved there - this will ensure that no object will ever disappear from >> the mirror, no matter what is done on the master side. Obviously, in >> this case remote refs like refs/old/* should be filtered. > > I do not think that belongs to git-mirror. It might be better to > have that option in update-ref machinery so that you would even > be protected from a `git branch -d` ran by mistake. Perhaps just don't remove log when branch is deleted. I tend for example to be careful when reordering commits on a branch, and use git branch -f instead of deleting and recreating branch to not lose reflog. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git