From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] delete_ref(): support reflog messages
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 03:17:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170217081752.oqozaaoscdwwzqce@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170217035800.13214-1-kyle@kyleam.com>
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:57:57PM -0500, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> [Sorry for the slow response.]
No problem. The pace of open source varies wildly. :)
> > - "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).
>
> I haven't worked out how to do this part yet. I'm guessing the change
> will involve modifying split_head_update().
>
> If this is added, should it be instead of, rather than in addition to,
> the deletion entry? If a "Branch: renamed ..." entry is present, it
> doesn't seem like the deletion entry is providing any additional
> information.
I think you could do an "instead of" that goes from sha1 X to X, and
just mentions the rename. Or you could add a second entry after the
delete that takes it from 0{40} back to X.
I suspect the latter is easier to do, and I doubt anybody would care
that much of the exact form. These entries aren't really doing anything
for reachability. They're just giving an audit log of what happened. So
I don't think anybody would really care unless they were debugging a
confusing situation by hand. And as long as there's enough information
to figure out what happened, they'll be happy.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-17 8:18 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
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 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-02-21 1:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] delete_ref: support reflog messages 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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