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Re: Accessing the reflog remotely

From
Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 10:58 UTC
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On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I guess the answer is "no", but I'll still ask in case ...
>
> Is it possible to access the reflog of a remote repository other than
> logging into this repository?
>
> My use-case is the following: I want to checkout "the last revision
> pushed in master on ssh://host/repo/ on day D at midnight" (to fetch
> the project of my students ;-) ). If it were locally, I'd do
>
>  git checkout 'origin/master@{Nov 3 00:00:00}'
>
> But this tells me where _my_ local master was on that date (i.e. the
> last revision I had pulled).

Keep in mind that bare repos don't have reflogs by default, so unless you enabled the reflog manually there is none.

tom
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  1. Matthieu MoyNov 4, 2009
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  3. Tomas CarneckyNov 4, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreNov 4, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoyNov 4, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2009
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