Re: pretty placeholders for reflog entries

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 7, 2011, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20111107211325.GB7380@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMYxyaWPWVGUHz0qQOnARb9wexHCx73a04Bu_UhrJR=xrinX7g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:49:48PM -0600, Jack Nagel wrote:

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> I have the reflog enabled on a bare repo so that I can have a record of
> "who pushed what, when". I'd like to define a custom pretty format for
> use with "git log -g" for reading it, but unfortunately the placeholders
> for reflog information are somewhat limited. In particular, I'd like to
> be able to access the identity (i.e., name and email) and date from each
> reflog entry.
> 
> Is it possible to extract this information in current git? Perhaps I
> overlooked something.

Sorry, but there aren't convenient placeholders for that. There probably should be.

As a workaround, you can get the reflog selector ("%gD"), and then cross-reference it with the output of "git log -g". But obviously that's inefficient and a giant pain. We really should have "%gn" and "%ge" for the reflog name and email. And related date options, though annoyingly "%gd" is already taken for the default format.

I doubt it would be a very big patch. Want to get your feet wet in git development? :)

-Peff