From: Yann Dirson Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:32:59 GMT Subject: Getting gitk to display all refs but stgit logs Message-ID: <20070108213259.GB17093@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Since v0.11, StGIT creates references to keep a hand on patch logs. This has the unfortunate side-effect that "gitk --all" suddenly shows all those very annoying, and soon becomes unusable on repositories for which was very convenient. I guess it would be acceptable to have stgit itself launch gitk with the correct options. The only way I could find to suppress these refs from the display is to find the refs ourselves and pipe them to gitk using --stdin: find .git/refs/ -type f -not -name '*.log' -printf '%P\n'|gitk --stdin Unfortunately, requesting an update from gitk then behaves as if nothing had been given on command-line (obviously it is passing --stdin to git-rev-list without repeating the data). We could do slightly better by enclosing the find in backquotes on the gitk command-line, but that would still hide new refs to git-rev-list when updating the graph. Is there a better way already, or should we work on something specific here ? A possible solution I think of could be to call something like: gitk --stdin-command="find .git/refs/ -type f -not -name '*.log' -printf '%P\n'" Best regards, -- Yann.