John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, this is true but that doesn't seem to test the --rewrite functionality. > I could be missing something, but it seems that the reflog --rewrite option > will write the LHS old oid value in the .git/logs/refs/stash file. When > --rewrite isn't used, the reflog delete still does the right thing to the > RHS entry. > > I couldn't find any way to check this LFS value other than reaching into the > actual file. If there is a way that would be preferable. Ah, that one. As 2b81fab2 (git-reflog: add option --rewrite to update reflog entries while expiring, 2008-02-22) says, the redundant half of the reflog entry only matters to "certain sanity checks" and would not be even visible to normal ref API users. I wonder why we need to even say "--rewrite" in the first place. Perhaps we should implicitly set it always and eventually deprecate that option.
