From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:28:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] history: add squash subcommand to fold a range
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.