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From: "herr.kaste" <herr.kaste@gmail.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: rebase -i --update-refs can lead to deletion of branches
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:01:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFzd1+5F4zqQ1CNeY2xaaf0r__JmE4ECiBt5h5OdiJHbaE78VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I have the following:

While doing a

`$ git rebase --interactive  --update-refs X`

I *removed* the "update-ref" lines from the todo list.  The rebase runs
as expected and prints e.g.

```
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/test.
Updated the following refs with --update-refs:
refs/heads/master
refs/heads/permissive-interactive-rebase
refs/heads/variable-annotations-meta-block
```

After that all refs have been removed/deleted.

```
$ git branch  --list
* test
```

Now, I should just have not used `--update-refs` in the first place but anyway
I decide late that I rather don't want to update "master" etc. and it should
probably not delete the local refs.

Actually, I so love the new feature that I switched it *on* by default, and just
wanted to overwrite the behavior in the todo editor.

Regards
Caspar Duregger

             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20 17:01 herr.kaste [this message]
2022-10-20 20:49 ` rebase -i --update-refs can lead to deletion of branches Erik Cervin Edin
2022-11-03  9:32 ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-03 15:25   ` herr.kaste
2022-11-03 16:52     ` Erik Cervin Edin
2022-11-04  0:31 ` Victoria Dye
2022-11-04 10:40   ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-04 15:28     ` Victoria Dye
2022-11-04 16:57       ` [PATCH] rebase --update-refs: avoid unintended ref deletion Victoria Dye
2022-11-04 19:44         ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-04 20:17           ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-04 20:12         ` Phillip Wood
2022-11-07  2:39           ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v2] " Victoria Dye
2022-11-07 19:17           ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-07 19:25           ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-08  9:58           ` Phillip Wood

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