Re: reflog weirdness

() Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> () Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:20:16 -0800

   $ vi .git/logs/HEAD

   and truncate that line after "commit: " to remove the
   part that would normally show the one-line commit log
   message.

thanks for the tip. i'll do that as soon as i've had a chance to ponder the repercussions. in the meantime...

   How does commit 20d9d23 look like (the tracked contents
   are not interesting --- the commit log message is)?

here is the (again, not inlined due to strange bytes) top of "git show 20d9d23" output:

i see that the body of the log message (three bytes) corresponds to the first three bytes of the associated line in .git/logs/HEAD.

thi