Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2007, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0702051449l3951ee43s34bde4614c83612d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070205194508.GD8409@spearce.org>

On 2/5/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

> I use it daily.  Mainly `git log origin/master@{1}..origin/master`
> to see what has come in from Junio since my last fetch.  The @{n}
> syntax has (for me) been one of its best features.  (Thanks Junio!)

It looks and smells like a useful feature. I just haven't found any use for it yet. Besides all the good, it's another part of a repo needing maintenance (constantly growing thing, like /var/log).

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> If the reflog code did fail to record something, and you needed it,
> and you hadn't git-prune'd yet, git-fsck would list the dangling
> commit.  And a copy-n-paste session with `git-log -p D --not --all`
> in another xterm would help you navigate what the dangling commits
> were.

Yes, of course. I somehow missed it. Shows how often one does git-fsck in cygwin, doesn't it?