From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:22:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION in git-commit Message-ID: <7vvej2a14h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070120021557.GB11073@spearce.org> "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> This allows git-cherry-pick and git-revert to properly identify >> themselves in the resulting reflog entries. Earlier they were >> recorded as what git-commit has done. > > Not sure how I missed that one when I introduced GIT_REFLOG_ACTION, > but thanks for finding and fixing it. :-) The fact that it went unnoticed for this long time shows how we lack proper tools to read the message part of the reflog, although we use @{N} and @{ago} notation every day and some people might even rely on it. I'd like to do something about it, and my earlier "show-branch --reflog" enhancement series (I'll park that in 'next' for now) was my attempt for that goal. I found this out by accident while working on it.