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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Don't crash during repack of a reflog with pruned commits.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:52:04 -0800
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> If the user has been using reflog for a long time (e.g. since its
> introduction) then it is very likely that an existing branch's
> reflog may still mention commits which have long since been pruned
> out of the repository.

I've thought about this issue when I did the repack/prune; my
take on this was you should prune reflog first then repack.