Tim Chase g...@tim.thechases.com writes:
Reading up on git help update-ref, it states that it updates the
name safely.
I think that description is well intended but is misleading. There
are many potential sources of risk, and the safely refers to
protection against a particular kind of risk:
Hi,
Tim Chase wrote:
cd .git/refs
mkdir -p closed
mv heads/BUG-123 closed
That breaks with packed refs (see git-pack-refs(1)), which are a normal
thing to encounter after garbage collection.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
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On 2014-04-23 10:58, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
cd .git/refs
mkdir -p closed
mv heads/BUG-123 closed
That breaks with packed refs (see git-pack-refs(1)), which are a
normal thing to encounter after garbage collection.
Hope that helps,
Very much so.
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Tim Chase wrote:
cd .git/refs
mkdir -p closed
mv heads/BUG-123 closed
That breaks with packed refs (see git-pack-refs(1)), which are a normal
thing to encounter after garbage collection.
Specifically,
- if BUG-123 branch was placed in
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