From: Sergio Callegari <scallegari@arces.unibo.it>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:56:53 GMT
Subject: Re: fsck missing dangling commits that are candidate heads?
Message-ID: <loom.20070403T215123-220@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070403194750.GG27706@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce <at> spearce.org> writes:

>
> Right.  This is the reflog in action.  Your current branch has two
> reflogs, .git/logs/HEAD and .git/logs/refs/heads/$foo, where $foo
> is your current branch name.  Both of these logs mention the commit
> you are looking for, so they aren't considered dangling garbage,
> nor are they pruneable.
> 
> Use `git log -g` or `git log -g $foo` to look at the reflog for
> HEAD and $foo to locate the commit in question.
> 

Many thanks! I was quite sure I was missing something...
At least I am in good company since the fsck man page does not mention the 
logs :-)

Then... is there any shorthand for finding candidate branch-heads (i.e. for
having something like fsck without looking at the logs) ?