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

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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
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