Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> writes:

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> When deleting a branch, is there any reason we can't add a deletion
> entry into the reflog and keep the reflog around?  This would seem to be
> a lot safer; I know I've been burned by expecting the reflog safety net
> to be there, and surprised that it's not when I've deleted a branch.

There is techical problem with that, namely possibility of D/F
conflict. When you delete branch 'foo', you can later create branch
'foo/bar'. If reflog for 'foo' was not deleted, you couldn't create
reflog for 'foo/bar' because of directory / file conflict.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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