Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule

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Hi,

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > > * git-lost-found
> > >
> > >   Although it has served us well, I think it is about to outlive
> > >   its usefulness, thanks to the recent "reflog by default"
> > >   change.
> > >
> > 
> > Nonono. Please no. This has saved me more times than I can even care
> > to remember. Especially whenever I'm teaching newcomers how to git.
> > I really wouldn't want to not have it there in case its needed and
> > some schmuck upgrades git and then loses something vital because he
> > forgot to enable the reflog on an old repo.
> 
> It's functionality is superseded by "git fsck --unreachable",
> see this discussion.

AFAICT lost-and-found _connects_ the objects to files, and as such is 
easier to browse after running the command (which is expensive).

If you _have_ to lose lost-and-found, why not resurrect the functionality 
as an option to fsck?

Ciao,
Dscho

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