Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch

Theodore Tso [off-list ref] writes:

True, but (and please correct me if I'm wrong) ORIG_HEAD will always
be pointing out HEAD before the user typed pretty much any git
porcelein command (which saves HEAD into ORIG_HEAD), but with reflogs,
it you have to paw through multiple HEAD@{n} to find the 'n' which
corresponds to state before executing the git plumbing command, since
multiple git plumbing commands could have updated the HEAD's reflog,
right?

You can inspect HEAD's reflog for individual steps, or the branch's reflog
for the aggregated moves (try rebasing a few patches on 'test' branch and
inspect "git log -g HEAD" and "git log -g test").

One of the things that's been on my 'twoud be nice list is having an
option to "git reflog show" which prints the timestamp associated with
each reflog entry,

	$ git log -g HEAD@{now}
        $ git log -g test@{now}

Please don't complain that interface to specify timestamp output is dirty
to me -- I share the same feeling, and it was not my invention.  But at
least it works ;-)