On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:20 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Nieder said that this is used for git-stash, but I have never > understood why this is necessary, and would love to clarify this > better. The doc says this: "The `log_type = 0x0` is mostly useful for `git stash drop`, removing an entry from the reflog of `refs/stash` in a transaction file (below), without needing to rewrite larger files. Readers reading a stack of reflogs must treat this as a deletion." I should probably look at the code for git-stash to see how this plays out. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich I work 80%. Don't expect answers from me on Fridays. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
