Re: [PATCH] logging branch deletion to help recovering from mistakes

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:37:39AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Yes, you are right.  We should instead let the normal reflog expire
action do its work here, and delete the empty log file when it is
finally empty.

I guess we also need repack and prune to enumerate these deleted
reflogs and retain the objects their records point to.

Definitely. I sort of assumed all of those things just traversed
.git/logs blindly without regard to whether there was a ref, which would
handle this automagically. But maybe that is not the case.

Is there a reason to require that each log is specifically tied to a
ref?

-Peff