From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:04:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch
Message-ID: <7vlk0d4lky.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080707111803.GF31490@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

> True, but (and please correct me if I'm wrong) ORIG_HEAD will always
> be pointing out HEAD before the user typed pretty much any git
> porcelein command (which saves HEAD into ORIG_HEAD), but with reflogs,
> it you have to paw through multiple HEAD@{n} to find the 'n' which
> corresponds to state before executing the git plumbing command, since
> multiple git plumbing commands could have updated the HEAD's reflog,
> right?

You can inspect HEAD's reflog for individual steps, or the branch's reflog
for the aggregated moves (try rebasing a few patches on 'test' branch and
inspect "git log -g HEAD" and "git log -g test").

> One of the things that's been on my 'twoud be nice list is having an
> option to "git reflog show" which prints the timestamp associated with
> each reflog entry,

	$ git log -g HEAD@{now}
        $ git log -g test@{now}

Please don't complain that interface to specify timestamp output is dirty
to me -- I share the same feeling, and it was not my invention.  But at
least it works ;-)