# Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

- From: Andy Parkins \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:29:17 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688633
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7689399/t.md

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On Monday 2006 December 18 08:09, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> By definition each reflog entry says "it was pointing at this
> object before, and it was changed by this user to point at that
> object at this time and the reason for the change was this".

I'm daft.  I've realised, pruning doesn't remove the ref, it removes one of 
the hashes in the reflog.  I withdraw my comment.

I'd imagined it' as the opposite of a creation.

000000 abcdef  branch created
abcdef 000000  branch deleted

Which is fine, except that isn't what prune is doing at all.

> I personally do not think recording "at this point these things
> were pruned" makes _any_ sense whatsoever --- if you care about

I think you're right. :-)


Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE
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