Re: accessing oldest reflog entry with ref@{N}?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jun 19, 2013, 18:48 UTC
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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
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> $ git log --oneline -1 master@{1}
> fatal: Log for 'master' only has 1 entries.
>
> Annoyed, I just copy-pasted the sha and got the job done.
>
> However, I wonder why it didn't worked. 'git reflog' didn't print
> master@{1} or any message for the oldest entry, but I can live without
> that.There lies your answer, no?
Each of the log entry records "this was before, and this is after the change". ref@{0} reads from the "after" field of 0-th (from the end) entry. ref@{1} reads from the "after" field of 1-st (again from the end) entry. ref@{N} reads from the "after" field of N-th (again from the end) entry.
Notice that nowhere in the above sequence we read from "before" field.