Re: Hide decorations in git log

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 24, 2017, 14:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20170524143948.orx2i26fobm7sd6n@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499B+cyN=3XDqr7KgHSpyHLwi6bS=P_4beoS5fSkFhapAtw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

> Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are
> reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?

Sadly, no, there's no way to do this right now.

There was some discussion in this thread:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/20170119122630.27645-1-pclouds@gmail.com/T/#u

but no patches that do what you want.

Using the existing ref-selectors as discussed in that thread, it would probably look something like:

  git log --oneline \
	--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \
	--branches 'feature/*'

It sucks that you'd have to specify your refs twice (once to mark them for decoration and once to use them as tips). But the flexibility would let you do things like:

  git log --oneline \
	--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \
	--tags --decorate-refs \
	HEAD

which decorates feature branches and tags, but only traverses from HEAD (just as an example).

Anyway, none of that exists yet, so patches welcome.

-Peff