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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:50:56 -0400
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Alexey Muranov wrote:

> >  3. Most importantly, it does not resolve D/F conflicts (it has the
> >     same problem as "logs/refs/heads/a~"). If you delete "foo/bar", you
> >     will end up with "logs/refs/heads/foo/bar@{...}". That will prevent
> >     D/F conflicts with a new branch "foo/bar/baz", but will still have
> >     a problem with just "foo".
> 
> Unfortunately i do not really follow this, because i have not seen any
> directories in "logs/refs/heads/", i only saw files named after local
> branches there. I do not know how directories are used there.

The user is free to have branch names with slashes, in which case they
are represented in the filesystem as directories. Even without using
slashes in your branch names, you already have subdirectories in
refs/remotes.

-Peff