Re: [PATCH] --walk-reflogs: disallow uninteresting commits
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:50
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Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · [PATCH] --walk-reflogs: disallow uninteresting commits · Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH] --walk-reflogs: disallow uninteresting commits · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
> I think people may also appreciate timestamps on Reflog headers
> you add to the output.
At the moment, if you ask for @{1} (or leave it out), you will see
them enumerated by number. If you ask for @{now}, you will see
them identified by date...
Thanks. This certainly needs a better documentation -- the attached is
my try.
By the way, I haven't looked into it, but does this ring a bell?
$ git-log --walk-reflogs -1 --pretty=s master@{1.day}
commit 72fe6a59890870ed9c3e9e1e6381fc0d7ba75fe4
Reflog: master@{Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000} ((null))
Reflog message: (null)Author: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]
Documentation: Generate command lists.
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 86c94e7..fcc540b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt@@ -190,6 +190,21 @@ limiting may be applied. In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command line, read them from the standard input. +--walk-reflogs:: + + Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk + reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones. + When this option is used you cannot specify commits to + exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2', + nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used). ++ +With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons), +this causes the output to have two extra lines of information +taken from the reflog. By default, 'commit@{Nth}' notation is +used in the output. When the starting commit is specified as +'commit@{now}', output also uses 'commit@{timestamp}' notation +instead. + --merge:: After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a