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authorHan-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>2019-08-21 19:16:32 +0200
committerHan-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>2019-08-21 19:16:51 +0200
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Documentation/technical/reftable: document rename in reflog.
Change-Id: I0fe7d28a772b1ee9eefd9a38bff5e08a8559988f Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
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[update-ref]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-ref#_logging_updates
+Contrary to traditional reflog (which is a file), renames are encoded as a
+combination of ref deletion and ref creation.
+
+
#### Reading the log
Readers accessing the log must first read the footer (below) to