Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764308AbYBMFSJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:18:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751208AbYBMFRz (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:17:55 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:28167 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691AbYBMFRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:17:53 -0500 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:17:52 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, lkml , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) In-reply-to: Message-id: References: <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212.155853.193190548.davem@davemloft.net> <20080212.172051.58554658.davem@davemloft.net> <1202869550.3137.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202871616.3137.197.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 19 On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Of course, if you didn't even want to save the old branch, just skip the > first step. If you have reflogs enabled (and git does that by default in > any half-way recent version), you can always find it again, even without > having to do "git fsck --lost-found", at least as long as you don't delete > that branch, and it hasn't gotten pruned away (kept around for the next 90 > days by default, iirc) Even if you delete that branch, the "HEAD" reflog will still contain it, since it is separate from any particular branch reflog. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/