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Re: [PATCH 1/2] builtin/rebase.c: Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpoint

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2023, 18:10 UTC
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Wesley <wesleys@opperschaap.net> writes:
> The quirk is this: --fork-point looks at the reflog and reflog is
> local. Meaning, having an remote upstream branch will make
> --fork-point a noop. Only where you have an upstream which is local
> and your reflog has seen dropped commits it does something.

Why do you lack reflog on your remote-tracking branches in the first place?

The fork-point heuristics, as far as I understand it, was invented exactly to protect you from your upstream repository rewinding and rebuilding the branch you have been building on top of. The default fetch refspec +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* has the "force" option "+" in front exactly because the fetching repository is expected to keep the reflog for remote-tracking branches to help recovering from such a rewind & rebuild.

Puzzled.
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Message 19 of 23 in “builtin/rebase.c: Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpoint”
  1. 1/2 builtin/rebase.c: Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpointWesley Schwengle, Aug 19, 2023
  2. 1/2 builtin/rebase.c: Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpointWesley Schwengle, Aug 19, 2023
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2023
  5. Phillip WoodSep 1, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2023
  7. Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpointWesley Schwengle, Sep 2, 2023
  8. 2/3 builtin/rebase.c: Emit warning when rebasing without a forkpointWesley Schwengle, Sep 2, 2023
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2023
  10. WesleySep 3, 2023
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2023
  12. Wesley SchwengleSep 3, 2023
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2023
  14. Phillip WoodSep 4, 2023
  15. 1/3 rebase.c: Make a distiction between rebase.forkpoint and --fork-point argumentsWesley Schwengle, Sep 2, 2023
  16. 3/3 git-rebase.txt: Add deprecation notice to the --fork-point optionsWesley Schwengle, Sep 2, 2023
  17. Phillip WoodSep 1, 2023
  18. WesleySep 1, 2023
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2023
  20. WesleySep 2, 2023
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2023
  22. 2/2 git-rebase.txt: Add deprecation notice to the --fork-point optionsWesley Schwengle, Aug 19, 2023
  23. Wesley SchwengleAug 31, 2023

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