Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071441160.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <17866.20355.744025.133326@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

> 
> I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
> commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
> debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.

The "reflog" is kind of that, and you can literally do

	less .git/logs/refs/heads/master

to get some kind of idea what's up.

Newer gits enable reflogs by default, older gits don't (and *really* old git versions don't support it at all).

Of course, we should probably just have a

	git reflog show

command for this to make it prettier.

NOTE! It's very much per-repository. When you push out your changes, your reflog stays private.

			Linus