From: Alexandre Badez <alexandre@badez.eu>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:37:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Git log --decorate show prefetch objects
Message-ID: <a8c030bb-b7ff-4628-a104-65e64a1feb93@badez.eu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh6gh12yp.fsf@gitster.g>

On 04/04/2024 18:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Alexandre Badez <alexandre@badez.eu> writes:
>
>> # What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>>
>> <on a git repository not fetch from a "long" time so you have missing
>> branches and/or objects>
>>
>> git maintenance run --task=prefetch
>>
>> git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
> I do not use the prefetch stuff, but unfortunately the person who
> was most familiar with "maintenance" are no longer active on this
> list, so let me take a crack.
>
> I think your complaint is that "--all" really means "all", not just
> "heads" and "tags" but also includes "prefetch", while the prefetch
> hierarchy is not included in the "--decorate" sources.
>
> What does
>
>      $ git log --oneline --branches --tags --decorate --graph
>
> show, and is it closer to what you expected (note: this is not a
> direct suggestion of a workaround---trying to gauge what the
> direction is to move forward)?
>
> Thanks.


Indeed, I missed the --branches (and --remotes) options; they do a 
better job in my case.

Maybe --all have a "legacy behaviour" so it's on me to move to new and 
better options.

Thanks.