Re: Why not show ORIG_HEAD in git-log --decorate?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 10, 2010, 09:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20100410090441.GA18772@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100410090042.GA13109@atjola.homenet>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:00:42AM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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> > I think most people do something like:
> > 
> >   gitk HEAD^..ORIG_HEAD
> > 
> > To see everything in ORIG_HEAD that isn't in HEAD^ (the first parent of
> > HEAD, or what you had just before the pull).
> 
> I guess you meant to say "gitk ORIG_HEAD.." there. ORIG_HEAD is already
> the pre-pull state. So if the merge actually created a merge commit,
> then HEAD^ == ORIG_HEAD, and if it was a fast-forward, then ORIG_HEAD is
> either the same as HEAD^ or one of its ancestors. In either case,
> HEAD^..ORIG_HEAD will be empty.

Urgh, yes. Sorry, I was totally not thinking when I wrote that.

I never use ORIG_HEAD, as I always do a fetch + inspect + merge, rather than pull. But I can't even figure out what thought process led me to write what I did above.

Thanks for the correction.

-Peff