On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:59:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I tend to think (3) is now just useless. > > Quite the contrary. If you do not want to pay the price of (4) that is > useless most of the time, (3) is a cheap, space efficient and useful > information that is essential to allow you to get rid of (4) without > having to look at reflog. Sorry, I should have been more clear. If you turn off orphan-checking, (3) is just as useful as it always was. But _if_ you have orphan-checking turned on, and it comes up negative, showing (3) is not particularly useful. You already know you are not losing commits. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html