Re: Caution when removing git branches

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> So if someone does this (which does not look at all likely to me):
> 
> git push origin :REL9_0_STABLE
> git branch -r -D origin/REL9_0_STABLE
> git branch -d REL9_0_STABLE
> 
> ...then, yes, they will need to find someone who has run 'git
> pull' since the last change that was made to that branch.  OR they
> could get it back from the anonymous mirror of the canonical
> repository, which should always be up to date, OR I think there's
> an automatically updated mirror on github also.
I thought that git fsck by an administrator on the server would
still show the original as a dangling commit, which could be checked
out by the SHA1 ID.  No?
-Kevin