Re: [RFC] git reflog show

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 25, 2006, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612251449140.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wmpq83g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Yes, but if we have to read the reflog anyway to determine the logical 
> > (local) parent, we can just as well read the message, and display it, 
> > too.
> >
> > What it buys us is that we do not duplicate efforts here, and we can 
> > easily visualize the reflog in gitk, too.
> 
> I do not think you can sanely rewrite parenthood.

Well, I did not mean to change the parents in the commit object. Rather, let the revision walker determine the parent differently for reflogs.

> Also I highly doubt visualization based on parents information rewritten 
> to match the reflog order is of _any_ use.  By rewriting the parenthood, 
> you are losing the topology and your visualization is no better than 
> what "tac .git/logs/$ref" would give.

Okay, but if they are _not_ rewritten, we can reuse the log machinery to show the revisions in "upstream..master@{2.hours.ago}", but in the order they came into the local repository.

Ciao, Dscho