Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> +++ b/refs.c
>> @@ -1084,7 +1084,6 @@ int delete_ref(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1, int delopt)
>> */
>> ret |= repack_without_ref(refname);
>>
>> - unlink_or_warn(git_path("logs/%s", lock->ref_name));
>> invalidate_cached_refs();
>> unlock_ref(lock);
>> return ret;
>
> It's unfortunately not so easy. The problem you have to solve is D/F
> conflict: if you have 'foo/bar' branch, you can't create 'foo' branch,
> but after deleting 'foo/bar' you want to be able to create 'foo'
> branch and reflog for 'foo' branch.
Thanks for the pointer. Here are some more, for the interested.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144250/focus=145366
the dead_refs namespace
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73838/focus=73877
why to make and why not to make the change
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