Re: Storing notes refs outside of refs/

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2010, 19:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4C76BE90.6040902@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlj7tkxvn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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From: Junio C Hamano
Date: 8/26/2010 12:54 PM

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> Joshua Jensen<jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>  writes
>> gitk --all --not --glob=refs/notes/*
>>
>> does not work.
> I don't think --not there is a good idea because "--not" in rev-list
> parameter means "not reachable from the following commits".

Okay.  I've not used it before.

> It may be useful if you made "--all --glob=!refs/notes/*" to work,
> though.  I could picture myself buying such a change.
>
> Or just use "--branches --tags" instead, perhaps?

gitk --branches --remotes --tags is long to type. (Let's ignore git aliases for the moment.)

The deal is, refs/notes/ showing in git log --all serves no purpose, in my opinion. If it does for somebody else, I'd love to hear.

What if there was a configuration setting applied to 'git log --all' as a filter for refs I never want to see in the --all view?

git config --add core.logfilter refs/notes/* git config --add core.logfilter refs/game-p4/*

I also like the negated --glob syntax you showed above.

Another possibly useful idea is an extra 'git log' parameter --brt (for --branches, --remotes, --tags).

Thoughts? I'll see if I can find some time to work on something once I have a bit of direction.

Josh