From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:02:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: show detached HEAD if --all is specified
Message-ID: <xmqqppf4loaq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1410247756-10879-1-git-send-email-max@max630.net>

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?