Re: Git log --decorate show prefetch objects

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2024, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh6gh12yp.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <5a16d4e3-6fa4-45f3-ae79-576f3fa80d44@badez.eu>

Alexandre Badez <alexandre@badez.eu> writes:

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> # What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>
> <on a git repository not fetch from a "long" time so you have missing
> branches and/or objects>
>
> git maintenance run --task=prefetch
>
> git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph

I do not use the prefetch stuff, but unfortunately the person who was most familiar with "maintenance" are no longer active on this list, so let me take a crack.

I think your complaint is that "--all" really means "all", not just "heads" and "tags" but also includes "prefetch", while the prefetch hierarchy is not included in the "--decorate" sources.

What does

    $ git log --oneline --branches --tags --decorate --graph

show, and is it closer to what you expected (note: this is not a direct suggestion of a workaround---trying to gauge what the direction is to move forward)?

Thanks.