On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:27:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This fixed things and also warned about two heads referring to pruned > > commits, which may be those two commits I removed by hand (I hope). > > Exactly. > > All refs under .git/refs (the special case of this includes the > branch heads in .git/refs/heads) are your _promise_ to git that > everything that is reachable from them are supposed to be > available in your repository. If you remove specific commits by > hand without adjusting the branch ref, you are breaking that > promise and git-fsck will notice it as a repository breakage. If I move any ref by hand (not that I pass the day doing this..), I understand that some commits may suddenly result as unreachable. But those commits I removed by hand were already unreachable so no refs should have been referring them. What is this reflog thing and why is required? Domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 - 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
