Re: Recovering Committed Changes in a Detached Head?
From: Ronan Keryell <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:13
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On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 16:52:11 +1100, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] said:
Nguyen> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Martin Fick [off-list ref] wrote:
>> While rflog is cool, I can't help but think that git could be
>> even more helpful for these scenarios.
>> First, maybe git could create refs for these automatically,
>> perhaps with a name like orphans/1? Maybe these refs would only
>> be visible via git branch --orphans.
Nguyen> If I remember correctly, we don't have private ref
Nguyen> namespace, any refs created automatically this way could be
Nguyen> pushed out by accident.
A way to avoid this could be to deal with this like git-stash works,
instead of relying on the branch machinery.
But anyway, I think there is a trade-off between keeping some references
to some hypothetical future use and preventing the garbage collector to
reclaim useless objects...
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