overview / rules / baseline-reflog-drop
baseline-reflog-drop
Expiring the reflog now removes the only record of where a branch used to point.
what it refuses, and what it lets through
In one line, from native/baseline.h: reflog expire / gc with an immediate expiry.
Undoing a bad reset or branch delete relies on the reflog still holding the old tip; an immediate expiry removes that way back.
From the comment in native/baseline.h above the code that decides it.
the refusal, as the agent reads it
rabadon BLOCKED this action.
Rule: baseline-reflog-drop — expiring the reflog now removes the only record of where a branch used to point
git <subcommand> with an immediate expiry throws away the way back from a bad reset or delete — leave a window (--expire=90.days.ago), or run it after the work is pushed
Adjust the approach instead of retrying the same action.
(only the user can override this: they may add "baseline-reflog-drop" to disabled[] in .rabadon/guard.json or run `rabadon off`. If this rule looks wrong for the task, stop and ask the user; do not switch supervision off yourself.)
Rendered from the strings in native/baseline.h and the envelope in native/gate_pre.h (Judge::refuse). A word in <angle brackets> is filled in from the command at the moment it is refused.
in watch mode the same verdict is recorded, and nothing is stopped
rabadon (watch) would have blocked this.
Rule: baseline-reflog-drop — expiring the reflog now removes the only record of where a branch used to point
git <subcommand> with an immediate expiry throws away the way back from a bad reset or delete — leave a window (--expire=90.days.ago), or run it after the work is pushed
Nothing was stopped. `rabadon on` makes this a real refusal.
switching it off
Only the user can switch it off, by id, in the project's guard:
{ "disabled": ["baseline-reflog-drop"] }
or by pausing supervision with rabadon off, which records the change. Every other rule keeps running.
in the field
No record in the published field dataset (field.jsonl, 778 records, 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-26) carries this id.
The dataset is on the field page.