Re: Global reflog?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Feb 15, 2010, 04:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002142320440.1946@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <2729632a1002141414l4c4ccd82j32693e6e3bd02bc5@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to have git maintain a single reflog across all
> >> branches (and stashes)? I switch between branches, create and delete
> >> branches, stash save and pop, etc. frequently and it would be great
> >> for me if there was a way to have a global reflog that showed every
> >> operation, independent of a particular branch. Is there some way to
> >> enable this?
> >
> > You have it already.  It is the "HEAD" reflog.
> 
> I don't seem to see any stash activity. For example, I made a test
> change, did git stash, and then git stash pop. When I do git reflog, I
> don't see the stash commit or the delete of the stash. Is there a way
> to enable that?

It is true that stash doesn't touch HEAD. So logically the stash operations should not end up in the HEAD reflog. But maybe creating a reflog only for stashed states could be a good thing.

I personally don't use stash that much since I've grown the habit of saving temporary states to a temporary branch before git-stash even existed, which in that case is always captured by the HEAD reflog.

Nicolas