"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that > > they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot > > use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly > > entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really > > meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2). > > Stupid question--I assume a mention in the reflog doesn't count as a > real reference to an object, so they won't save you in the case when you > pruned recently? Not a stupid question. Your assumption is correct, its not a real reference, so prune will remove things that the log mentions but that refs don't currently mention. -- Shawn. - 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