<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Richard Eisenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eir@cis.upenn.edu" target="_blank">eir@cis.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What if there were an official place to keep dirty histories?</blockquote></div><br>git actually has a place for these, although at a price: when you squash commits or otherwise modify history, the originals are retained in the reflog. By default the reflog gets cleaned periodically, and letting it grow without bound has a performance impact, but in theory it could be used to keep this information.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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