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[PATCH] Correct documentation of 'reflog show' to explain it shows HEAD

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Aug 19, 2007, 08:18 UTC
Message-ID
<20070819081847.GA6166@spearce.org>

By default 'git reflog show' will show the reflog of 'HEAD' and not the reflog of the current branch. This is most likely due to the work done a while ago as part of the detached HEAD series to allow HEAD to have its own reflog independent of each branch's reflog.

Since 'git reflog show' is really just an obscure alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline' it should behave the same way and its documentation should match.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 Documentation/git-reflog.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index 89bc9c5..29b7d9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1].
 
 The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absense of any
 subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
-the current branch. It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
+`HEAD`, which will cover all recent actions, including branch switches.
+It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
 --pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1].
 
 
-- 
1.5.3.rc5.19.g0734d
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