Subject: Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

From: Joshua Jensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:05:22 -0600

----- Original Message -----
From: Will Palmer
Date: 7/19/2010 1:45 PM
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 11:16 -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote:
>> My brain has become muddied with all the ~2 stuff.  Explain again why it
>> can't be as simple as this?
> ...snip...
>> git checkout -b integration HEAD@{1}  (or 8000000)
>>
>> -Josh
> Because:
>   1) The HEAD reflog is the wrong place to stick things which weren't
> recently checked-out.
>   and 2) the previous tip is currently the easiest-to-recover part of a
> deleted branch. What's lost is all the reflog data: order of states, and
> how they were reached.
>
> However, I /do/ think it's as simple as "don't delete the reflog right
> away when you delete a branch", and other edge-cases and niceties in
> terms of UI (such as ref renaming, resurrection of refs for tracking
> unrelated data, etc) can be taken care of later, if there's actually a
> need for them.
Thanks for the extra clarification.

For my sake, how is the previous tip the easiest-to-recover part of a 
deleted branch?  How do you go about finding the lost object?

Josh