Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 18:06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] writes:

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Pros and cons for "undeleting branches":

+ safety net
It should not be easy to lose information with git.

I am personally not very convinced by this argument when it comes to the
cases where the user actively asks us to remove something.

[...]

As Will Palmer pointed out, being able to tell newbies "Don't worry,
you aren't going to break it" is a very powerful thing to be able to
tell newbies and experienced users using Git.

Also, one of the _very_ cool things with Git is that advance users can
tell newbies "don't worry, if you break it, I'll be able to repair
it". And advanced users are almost always able to repair beginner's
mistake after the fact (in my case, it's often about teachers helping
students, but it works also in other situations).

"branch -d" (and even more "branch -D") deleting the reflog is one of
the few exceptions to this rule: dumb users can shoot themselves in
the foot (which is normal) but then the doctor cannot undo it easily.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/