Re: Hide decorations in git log

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Robert Dailey [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are
reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?

For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches
'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob
pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match
the glob if they are reachable from the result set.

This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results
I'd think.

This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration
to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of
select branches. Without some sort of "decoration exclusion", I am
getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the
information I'm really interested in.

Thanks in advance.

Here is an even more concrete example:

$ git log --oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --simplify-by-decoration
--branches='hotfix'

I get the following results:

https://i.imgur.com/arHJss8.png

These results are incredibly confusing... I expected to see the first
line of the log results to be a branch matching 'hotfix' at the very
least. Maybe my question is more of a symptom of confusion about a
different problem. In any case, sorry for the confusion and hopefully
someone can clarify for me. I must be missing something basic.