Re: history missing

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2010, 13:29 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=rT0S1H8pFt9d+FYVme4fjNNzY6O6evuBwo-ZB@mail.gmail.com>

Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Vitaliy Semochkin wrote:
>>
>>> I cloned a remote repository
>>> to check recent changes in origin/master I do:
>>> git fetch origin master

This fetches into FETCH_HEAD _only_ from "origin" *remote*.

>>> git log origin master

This show log of 'origin/HEAD', which probably is 'origin/master'... but which didn't get updated, and local branch 'master'.

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>>>
>>> recently I found out that log doesn't show recent commits
>>
>> Yes, this can be confusing.
> 
> I agree and I believe this has come up a lot of times before. I talked
> to Jeff and Junio about this at GitTogether and Jeff said he has a patch
> for it that he would try to get up to date in a while. (Thanks, Jeff!)

How can this issue be solved? The meaning of parameters in 'git fetch' is different from meaning of parameters in 'git log'.

Unless it is about adding hint / advice for when doing 'git fetch <remote> <branch>'...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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