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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, mhagger@alum•mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a reflog_exists and delete_reflog abstraction
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 12:15:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1tw6g1mp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399330677-17930-1-git-send-email-sahlberg@google.com> (Ronnie Sahlberg's message of "Mon, 5 May 2014 15:57:56 -0700")

Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google•com> writes:

> It currently has a hard assumption that the loose ref file must exist at this
> stage or else it would end up deleting the reflog which is true today, as far
> as I can tell, but would break if git would change such that we could have
> a branch checked out without having a loose ref file for that branch.

Hmmmm.  Do you mean this sequence will break?

        : gitster x; git init lo
        Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/x/lo/.git/
        : gitster x; cd lo
        : gitster lo/master; git commit --allow-empty -m initial
        [master (root-commit) db2b430] initial
        : gitster lo/master; git branch next

Now we have two branches, master and next, and we are on master.

        : gitster lo/master; git pack-refs --all
        : gitster lo/master; ls .git/refs/heads
        ./  ../
        : gitster lo/master; cat .git/packed-refs
        # pack-refs with: peeled fully-peeled 
        db2b43072749258d1e3c119c9570349d77c26b3a refs/heads/master
        db2b43072749258d1e3c119c9570349d77c26b3a refs/heads/next

And loose refs are fully packed.

        : gitster lo/master; git checkout next
        Switched to branch 'next'
        : gitster lo/next; ls .git/refs/heads
        ./  ../

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 22:57 [PATCH] add a reflog_exists and delete_reflog abstraction Ronnie Sahlberg
2014-05-05 22:57 ` [PATCH] refs.c: add new functions reflog_exists and delete_reflog Ronnie Sahlberg
2014-05-06 15:55   ` Michael Haggerty
2014-05-06 18:21     ` Ronnie Sahlberg
2014-05-06 15:23 ` [PATCH] add a reflog_exists and delete_reflog abstraction Michael Haggerty
2014-05-07 20:47   ` Ronnie Sahlberg
2014-05-06 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-06 19:29   ` Ronnie Sahlberg

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