Re: fsck --full is Ok, but clones are not, "missing commits"?!

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: May 6, 2008, 12:17 UTC
Message-ID: <48204C57.5000909@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080506115224.79802c7c@zebulon.innova-card.com>

Brian FOSTER schrieb:

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> Johannes Sixt kindly replied:
>> [ ... ]
>> For me, the unusable [ `gitk' ] scrollbar alone would be reason enough
>> to truncate the history.
>> [ ... ]  I have gitk running all the time.  So, yes, it is "important."
>> But I run it basically as 'gitk --all --not origin' and press F5 frequently.
>> With this set of arguments the scrollbar remains usable, and performance
>> is not an issue, even on Windows.
> 
> Hannes,
> 
>  May I ask why you are running `gitk' all the time?
>  Is this on some sort of a Linux kernel repository or something else?

Something else (~9000 commits, most of them imported from CVS).

I have gitk running all the time because I want a quick way to see "where I am". That I get by pressing F5 (instead of typing in a longish command to fire up gitk) and the mentioned argument list.

Also, quite a lot of the work I do is to polish a topic branch using 'git rebase -i'. By browsing through the commits, I quickly get an overview whether the branch is fine or needs more work.

>  Am I correct in interpreting `--all --not origin' as meaning "every
>  branch except those in origin/*" (i.e., all branches except the
>  remote-tracking ones)?

Not quite. It means the same as for 'git log': The commits from all branches *but not* the commits from branch 'origin' (which is an alias for origin/master, in my case, that's what is "published"). This is my way to reduce the number of commits that are displayed and it amounts to ~300 commits.

-- Hannes