From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:49:55 GMT
Subject: Re: "git log" does not display refs info when executed via C# Process class on Windows
Message-ID: <xmqqblwyc8l8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <BN8PR21MB11566C135B1326AF1B45E4D8B7D60@BN8PR21MB1156.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>

Cliff Schomburg <clisc@microsoft.com> writes:

> Strangely, when I run this command:
>
> Git log origin/master --pretty=oneline --decorate -1
>
> I get the format I want from STDOUT.  However, when I try to filter it to show only the tag refs:
>
> Git log origin/master --pretty=oneline --decorate --decorate-refs=^tag* -1
>
> No refs are returned to standard output again.  Only on the command line.
>
> Does --decorate-refs not return to STDOUT?

If you are asking for tags, which does not begin with a caret "^",
perhaps drop "^" from the pattern?

The pattern is supposed to be wildmatch pattern, so it is already
left anchored, e.g. --decorate-refs=ag* won't find any tag.