Re: Accessing the reflog remotely

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Nov 4, 2009, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911041243350.10340@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <vpqljimpr95.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I guess the answer is "no", but I'll still ask in case ...
> 
> Is it possible to access the reflog of a remote repository other than
> logging into this repository?

No.

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> My use-case is the following: I want to checkout "the last revision
> pushed in master on ssh://host/repo/ on day D at midnight" (to fetch
> the project of my students ;-) ). If it were locally, I'd do
> 
>   git checkout 'origin/master@{Nov 3 00:00:00}'
> 
> But this tells me where _my_ local master was on that date (i.e. the
> last revision I had pulled).

You could checkout the first revision which committer's date is older than midnight. Of course that means you have to trust that students didn't mess up with time stamps.

Nicolas