Hide decorations in git log

Hello,

Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of?

For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches 'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match the glob if they are reachable from the result set.

This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results I'd think.

This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of select branches. Without some sort of "decoration exclusion", I am getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the information I'm really interested in.

Thanks in advance.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is an even more concrete example:

$ git log --oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --simplify-by-decoration --branches='hotfix'

I get the following results:

https://i.imgur.com/arHJss8.png

These results are incredibly confusing... I expected to see the first line of the log results to be a branch matching 'hotfix' at the very least. Maybe my question is more of a symptom of confusion about a different problem. In any case, sorry for the confusion and hopefully someone can clarify for me. I must be missing something basic.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

Sadly, no, there's no way to do this right now.

There was some discussion in this thread:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/20170119122630.27645-1-pclouds@gmail.com/T/#u

but no patches that do what you want.

Using the existing ref-selectors as discussed in that thread, it would probably look something like:

  git log --oneline \
	--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \
	--branches 'feature/*'

It sucks that you'd have to specify your refs twice (once to mark them for decoration and once to use them as tips). But the flexibility would let you do things like:

  git log --oneline \
	--branches 'feature/*' --decorate-refs \
	--tags --decorate-refs \
	HEAD

which decorates feature branches and tags, but only traverses from HEAD (just as an example).

Anyway, none of that exists yet, so patches welcome.

-Peff

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't think there's a way to do this, but it could be added. The glob just matches the refs now, the decoration happens as an unrelated step which doesn't care about the glob.