From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: HEAD's reflog entry for a renamed branch
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:30:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk29h33w1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126211205.5gz3zsrptop7n34n@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:12:05 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> It's unfortunate that there's no message. This is because the rename
> calls delete_ref() under the hood, but that function doesn't take a
> reflog message argument at all. It usually doesn't matter because
> deleting the ref will also delete the reflog.
>
> But as your example shows, deletions _can_ get logged in the HEAD
> reflog; the low-level ref code detects when HEAD points to the updated
> ref and logs an entry there, too.
> ...
> I'd say there are two potential improvements:
>
> - delete_ref() should take a reflog message argument, in case it
> updates the HEAD reflog (as a bonus, this will future-proof us for a
> day when we might keep reflogs for deleted refs).
This sounds sensible.
> - "git branch -m" does seem to realize when we are renaming HEAD,
> because it updates HEAD to point to the new branch name. But it
> should probably insert another reflog entry mentioning the rename
> (we do for "git checkout foo", even when "foo" has the same sha1 as
> the current HEAD).
This one I care less (not in the sense that I prefer it not done,
but in the sense that I do not mind it is left unfixed than the
other one you pointed out).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 23:17 HEAD's reflog entry for a renamed branch Kyle Meyer
2017-01-26 21:12 ` Jeff King
2017-01-26 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-01-26 21:53 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 3:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] delete_ref(): support reflog messages Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 3:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] delete_refs(): accept a reflog message argument Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 8:12 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:35 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 3:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] update-ref: pass reflog message argument to delete_refs Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 8:22 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:40 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 23:41 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 3:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] rename_ref: replace empty deletion message in HEAD's log Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 8:31 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 19:43 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 19:55 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:42 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 23:41 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-02-17 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:53 ` Jeff King
2017-02-17 8:17 ` [PATCH 0/3] delete_ref(): support reflog messages Jeff King
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] delete_ref: " Kyle Meyer
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] delete_ref: accept a reflog message argument Kyle Meyer
2017-02-23 9:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-23 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-25 3:05 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] update-ref: pass reflog message to delete_ref() Kyle Meyer
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] rename_ref: replace empty message in HEAD's log Kyle Meyer
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] branch: record creation of renamed branch " Kyle Meyer
2017-02-21 7:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] delete_ref: support reflog messages Jeff King
2017-02-21 7:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-21 16:45 ` Kyle Meyer
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