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Re: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 14, 2013, 06:59 UTC
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<20130814065933.GB3744@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<520B2478.3000100@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:02:24PM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
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> >>     # all reflog entries that are not on a branch, tag, or remote
> >>     d1 = !gitk --date-order $(git log -g --pretty=%H) --not --branches --tags --remotes
> [...]
>
> > A potential problem is that the output from "log -g --pretty=%H" or
> > "fsck | grep dangling" may turn out to be humongous.  Other than
> > that, they correctly compute what you want.
> 
> I thought I mentioned that but I can't find my email now so maybe I
> didn't.
> 
> In practice though, I find that, bash at least seems happy to take
> command lines as long as 7+ million characters long, so with the default
> reflog expire times, that should work out to 10,000 commits *per day*.
> [Tested with: echo {1000000..1900000}  > junk; echo `cat junk` | wc]
You can also do:
  git log -g --pretty=%H |
  git log --stdin --not --branches --tags --remotes
to avoid any argv limitations.
-Peff
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  1. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederAug 12, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  4. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  5. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  6. Duy NguyenAug 12, 2013
  7. Andreas SchwabAug 12, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  9. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  10. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  12. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  14. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2013
  16. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  17. Jeff KingAug 14, 2013
  18. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  19. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  20. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  21. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  22. Fwd: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?David Jeske, Aug 13, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013

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