From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:20:04 GMT Subject: Re: (unknown) Message-ID: <7vwt6okpgr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <7v1wowm46j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > Andy Parkins writes: > >> On Wednesday 2006, October 25 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> > I did try that, but then the branches don't appear in git branch. I >>> > still like that they exist. >>> >>> "git branch -r" perhaps. >> >> That's pretty good. It makes things like >> >> git-log remotes/origin/master..master >> >> A bit long winded, but it's certainly what I asked for. > > "git log remotes/origin..master" perhaps? > > The point being, remotes/origin when origin is a directory that > has HEAD that points at something, it stands for > remotes/origin/HEAD. Heh, I spoke too fast. "git log origin..master" If you do not have none of .git/origin, .git/refs/origin, .git/refs/tags/origin, .git/refs/heads/origin, nor .git/refs/remotes/origin, then .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is what "origin" means (see get_sha1_basic() in sha1_name.c).