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Re: Hide decorations in git log

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RDRobert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Date
May 24, 2017, 14:31 UTC
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are
> reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?
>
> For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches
> 'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob
> pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match
> the glob if they are reachable from the result set.
>
> This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results
> I'd think.
>
> This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration
> to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of
> select branches. Without some sort of "decoration exclusion", I am
> getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the
> information I'm really interested in.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Here is an even more concrete example:

$ git log --oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --simplify-by-decoration --branches='hotfix'

I get the following results:
https://i.imgur.com/arHJss8.png

These results are incredibly confusing... I expected to see the first line of the log results to be a branch matching 'hotfix' at the very least. Maybe my question is more of a symptom of confusion about a different problem. In any case, sorry for the confusion and hopefully someone can clarify for me. I must be missing something basic.

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