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Re: [PATCH] gitk: show detached HEAD if --all is specified

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 9, 2014, 17:04 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> writes:
>
>> If HEAD is detached, 'gitk --all' does not show it. This is inconvenient
>> for frontend program, and for example git log does show the detached HEAD.
>
> "git log" does use the same revision machinery as rev-parse uses
> internally to parse its command line arguments.  What does it do
> differently?

Ah, nevermind. I misremembered that rev-parse does not use the revision machinery.

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