Re: [RFC] git reflog show

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 23, 2006, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612231552140.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v4prmsxjl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm toying with what a 'git reflog show' might look like.  I attached
> > the prototype code below.  Here's the output from the recent part of
> > my mmap pack window topic:
> >
> >   $ ./git-reflog show refs/heads/sp/mapwin
> >   ...clipped for space...
> >   
> 
> The output should look almost the same as "git log" for the part
> that represents a series of normal branch activity where commits
> are built up one-by-one.  I think it would be useful if you can
> somehow make parts that are _not_ linear stand out and perhaps
> allow omitting a stretch of ordinary single strand of pearls.

I wonder if it would make sense to teach the revision walking machinery about reflogs. A commit could be marked as coming from a reflog entry, and in that case the parents could be determined by the reflog rather than the commit itself.

Is this a stupid idea?

Ciao, Dscho