Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] history: add squash subcommand to fold a range

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2026, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqcxx5kufb.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <akZfm-igZKeHaDST@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Yeah, agreed. I think that the reflog is insufficient for a lot of Git's
> operations and that it is way too hard to reason about.

As the reflog has never been about undoing, this is understandable.

Things like @{-N} notation and "git push --force-if-includes" make good use of the "what was this ref pointing at historically?" information, so they give us a proof that it is possible to programmatically go back and find the necessary state, though.

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