{"thread":{"id":"46037","subject":"Hide decorations in git log","startedAt":"2017-05-24T14:22:47Z","lastAt":"2017-05-26T08:49:19Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Robert Dailey","Jeff King","Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"320662","messageId":"CAHd499B+cyN=3XDqr7KgHSpyHLwi6bS=P_4beoS5fSkFhapAtw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46037","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Hide decorations in git log","fromName":"Robert Dailey","fromEmail":"rcdailey.lists@gmail.com","sentAt":"2017-05-24T14:22:32Z","receivedAt":"2017-05-24T14:22:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rcdailey.lists@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nIs it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are\nreachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?\n\nFor example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches\n'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob\npattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match\nthe glob if they are reachable from the result set.\n\nThis is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results\nI'd think.\n\nThis is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration\nto get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of\nselect branches. Without some sort of \"decoration exclusion\", I am\ngetting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the\ninformation I'm really interested in.\n\nThanks in advance.\n"},{"id":"320663","messageId":"CAHd499B83CORzZjRN2EMfHq5xTJgy6kXuCVce41jA_qqg80GGQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46037","inReplyTo":"CAHd499B+cyN=3XDqr7KgHSpyHLwi6bS=P_4beoS5fSkFhapAtw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Hide decorations in git log","fromName":"Robert Dailey","fromEmail":"rcdailey.lists@gmail.com","sentAt":"2017-05-24T14:31:06Z","receivedAt":"2017-05-24T14:31:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rcdailey.lists@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n> Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are\n> reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?\n>\n> For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches\n> 'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob\n> pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match\n> the glob if they are reachable from the result set.\n>\n> This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results\n> I'd think.\n>\n> This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration\n> to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of\n> select branches. Without some sort of \"decoration exclusion\", I am\n> getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the\n> information I'm really interested in.\n>\n> Thanks in advance.\n\nHere is an even more concrete example:\n\n$ git log --oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --simplify-by-decoration\n--branches='hotfix'\n\nI get the following results:\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/arHJss8.png\n\nThese results are incredibly confusing... I expected to see the first\nline of the log results to be a branch matching 'hotfix' at the very\nleast. Maybe my question is more of a symptom of confusion about a\ndifferent problem. In any case, sorry for the confusion and hopefully\nsomeone can clarify for me. I must be missing something basic.\n"},{"id":"320664","messageId":"20170524143948.orx2i26fobm7sd6n@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"46037","inReplyTo":"CAHd499B+cyN=3XDqr7KgHSpyHLwi6bS=P_4beoS5fSkFhapAtw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Hide decorations in git log","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2017-05-24T14:39:48Z","receivedAt":"2017-05-24T14:39:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:\n\n> Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are\n> reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?\n\nSadly, no, there's no way to do this right now.\n\nThere was some discussion in this thread:\n\n http://public-inbox.org/git/20170119122630.27645-1-pclouds@gmail.com/T/#u\n\nbut no patches that do what you want.\n\nUsing the existing ref-selectors as discussed in that thread, it would\nprobably look something like:\n\n git log --oneline \\\n\t--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \\\n\t--branches 'feature/*'\n\nIt sucks that you'd have to specify your refs twice (once to mark them\nfor decoration and once to use them as tips). But the flexibility would\nlet you do things like:\n\n git log --oneline \\\n\t--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \\\n\t--tags --decorate-refs \\\n\tHEAD\n\nwhich decorates feature branches and tags, but only traverses from HEAD\n(just as an example).\n\nAnyway, none of that exists yet, so patches welcome.\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"320810","messageId":"CACBZZX6Y6OTd5Dh8d1gKuMQBStgbbEW+kstK6kUFGfAzqWyoTQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46037","inReplyTo":"CAHd499B+cyN=3XDqr7KgHSpyHLwi6bS=P_4beoS5fSkFhapAtw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Hide decorations in git log","fromName":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","fromEmail":"avarab@gmail.com","sentAt":"2017-05-26T08:48:41Z","receivedAt":"2017-05-26T08:49:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"avarab@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45301?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:\n> Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are\n> reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?\n>\n> For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches\n> 'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob\n> pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match\n> the glob if they are reachable from the result set.\n>\n> This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results\n> I'd think.\n>\n> This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration\n> to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of\n> select branches. Without some sort of \"decoration exclusion\", I am\n> getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the\n> information I'm really interested in.\n\nI don't think there's a way to do this, but it could be added. The\nglob just matches the refs now, the decoration happens as an unrelated\nstep which doesn't care about the glob.\n"}]}