Re: multi-project repos

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

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Although if you have reflog enabled on your current branch there
is a 1 character shorter syntax:

	gitk HEAD@{1}..

Are you sure about this?  I've seen "next@{1}" to look at
history of the named branch, but never history of "HEAD".

 
Yes.  :-)

If the ref name is a symref then we resolve the symref all the
way down to the real ref before we open and walk the reflog.
Therefore this works.

True, except if you did:

        $ git pull
        $ git checkout otherbranch
        $ git show HEAD@{1}

My real point was that I was wondering if it also makes sense
for ref-log to record switching branches for the symref itself.

But after sending that message I thought about it a bit more and
concluded that it is not an interesting information.  It is more
code that affects unrelated places even if we were to implement
it and without real gain, so let's not log symref itself and
keep the current implementation.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

True, except if you did:

        $ git pull
        $ git checkout otherbranch
        $ git show HEAD@{1}

My real point was that I was wondering if it also makes sense
for ref-log to record switching branches for the symref itself.

But after sending that message I thought about it a bit more and
concluded that it is not an interesting information.  It is more
code that affects unrelated places even if we were to implement
it and without real gain, so let's not log symref itself and
keep the current implementation.

I agree completely.

I have no interest in a history of what branches I've recently
been on.  All I care about is the history of this branch.  And I
consider HEAD to be nothing but a shortcut that always points to
the current branch... so its darn useful for that.

In retrospect CURR may have been a better name for the HEAD symref
but its far too late to even consider changing that, so lets not
go down that road.  :-)

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