From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 01:36:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD] Git glossary: 'branch' and 'head' description
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605192116360.6713@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7wxfs7v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > $ git pull . stuff
> > # Notice that the diffstat is exciting
> > # What did I just get?
> > $ git log master@{5 minutes ago}..master
> >
> > This is about the only easy way to find out that the fast-forward you just 
> > did included merging a line which contains a commit from several weeks 
> > ago. (Because the "before" state isn't easily accessible for a 
> > fast-forward, and the date of the old commit puts it way back in a 
> > date-ordered log.)
> 
> Did you forget about "git log ORIG_HEAD.."?

I guess I did forget that it sticks around. So you have to be doing 
something somewhat more complicated, like fetching the latest versions of 
multiple topic branches.

	-Daniel
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