Re: Accessing the reflog remotely

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2009, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbpjii2ur.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqljimpr95.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> 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

This won't solve your problem but I'll mention it anyway as it may be related.

A distribution point repository like this is often bare, and reflogs are not enabled in bare repositories (primarily due to my stupidity^Wbeing overly cautious---I was very skeptical about reflogs when we introduced it). It may make sense to enable reflogs everywhere by default in some major version bump.

Also a distribution point repository is often served by gitweb and it would be really nice if there were an option to allow its summary view to show commits annotated with reflog entries, e.g.

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    2 days ago          JCH Merge branch 'maint'
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    2 days ago          DVL Makefile: add compat/bswap.h to LIB_H
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    3 days ago          JCH Revert "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init"
    (pushed 60 hours ago)
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    4 days ago          JCH fixup tr/stash-format merge
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