From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: "David Jeske" <jeske@google•com>
Cc: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail•com>,
"Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam•org>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:22:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806241322.14224.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <willow-jeske-01l5kwGPFEDjCc7b>
David Jeske wrote:
> To re-ask the same question I asked in my last post, using your ascii
> pictures...
>
>
> Let's assume we're here..
>
> .<---.<---.<---A<---X<---Y <--- master
> \
> \--B<---C <--- customer_A_branch <=== HEAD
>
>
> And this person and everyone else moves their head pointers back
> to master without merging:
You could simply say: they stop working on 'customer_A_branch' branch
(moving HEAD poter is simply switching to / checking out / working on
different branch).
> .<---.<---.<---A<---X<---Y <--- master <=== HEAD
> \
> \--B<---C <--- customer_A_branch
>
>
> Now, five years down the road, our tree looks like:
>
>
> .<---.<---.<---A<---X<---Y<--.(3 years of changes).--ZZZ <--- master <=== HEAD
> \
> \--B<---C <--- customer_A_branch
>
> And someone does:
>
> git-branch -f customer_A_branch ZZZ
If they are using '-f', i.e. force, they should know and be sure what
they are doing; it is not much different from 'rm -f *'.
If reflog for 'customer_A_branch' expired it would be hard to go back
to old 'customer_A_branch', and impossible after garbage collector
pruned history.
What you _should do_, if you want to preserve old 'customer_A_branch'
pointer is to *tag* it, e.g. something like 'Attic/customer_A_branch';
if you use annotated tags you can even state why do you want to keep
old work, and why old work wasn't merged into long-lived branch, and
why the work was abandoned.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 11:19 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5V7wbFEDjCX7V>
[not found] ` <jeske@willow=01l5V7waFEDjChmh>
2008-06-24 1:47 ` why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!) David Jeske
2008-06-24 17:11 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 17:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 19:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 20:04 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 21:42 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 22:13 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 22:13 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 22:54 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-24 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 2:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 8:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-25 9:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 15:13 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 22:21 ` Steven Walter
2008-06-24 22:21 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to Steven Walter
2008-06-24 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 9:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-25 9:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 9:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-25 10:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 10:24 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2008-06-25 10:46 ` Anton Gladkov
2008-06-25 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 14:49 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless toldto Craig L. Ching
2008-06-25 15:18 ` Anton Gladkov
2008-06-25 10:41 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to Johannes Sixt
2008-06-25 12:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 13:51 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 19:50 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 20:04 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:22 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 21:24 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 1:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:37 ` Steven Walter
2008-06-25 20:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 21:05 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 5:16 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20080627193325.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
2008-06-27 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28 0:06 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-28 22:32 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-29 8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 22:44 ` Petr Baudis
2008-06-26 1:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 11:55 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-26 12:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:35 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-26 15:55 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-26 17:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-26 12:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25 13:19 ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-26 5:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-26 16:15 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-06-25 5:29 ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-24 20:04 ` why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!) David Jeske
2008-06-25 8:57 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 18:18 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 1:47 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5V7wbFEDjCX7V@videotron.ca>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5cKsCFEDjC=91MX@videotron.ca>
2008-06-24 2:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-24 3:18 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 8:14 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-24 3:18 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5ciVtFEDjCaD9@videotron.ca>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5e9cgFEDjCh3F@videotron.ca>
2008-06-24 4:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-24 4:40 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 5:24 ` Jan Krüger
2008-06-24 4:40 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <1978205964779154253@unknownmsgid>
2008-06-24 5:20 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-24 6:35 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 7:24 ` Jeff King
2008-06-24 7:31 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 8:16 ` Jeff King
2008-06-24 8:30 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 9:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 8:30 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5kv6TFEDjCj8S@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5lTEoFEDjCVta@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>
2008-06-24 10:01 ` Fedor Sergeev
2008-06-24 10:24 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 13:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-24 7:31 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 6:35 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 7:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 8:08 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 8:08 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 11:22 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-06-24 11:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 12:19 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-06-24 12:35 ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-24 12:46 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-06-24 11:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 12:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 12:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 4:59 Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <e80d075a0806232201o3933d154he2b570986604c30a@mail.gmail.com>
2008-06-24 5:43 ` Teemu Likonen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-24 8:35 Björn Steinbrink
[not found] <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5oEswFEDjCZBN>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5oEsvFEDjCjRW>
2008-06-24 10:42 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 10:42 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 15:29 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 16:41 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 16:41 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 18:55 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-25 12:20 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-25 17:56 ` Jing Xue
2008-06-24 12:21 Olivier Galibert
2008-06-25 18:06 Dmitry Potapov
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