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Accessing the reflog remotely

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 09:35 UTC
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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?

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).

So, the best I can think of is:

ssh host 'cd /repo/ ; git tag final-version "master@{Nov 3 00:00:00}"' git fetch --tags git checkout tags/final-version

Is there a better way?
Thanks,
-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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