# [PATCH] glossary: add 'reflog'

2 messages from 2007-07-03 to 2007-07-04. Participants: Johannes Schindelin, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8843

## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-07-03 20:28

Subject: [PATCH] glossary: add 'reflog'
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707032128020.4071@racer.site>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0707032128020.4071%40racer.site

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Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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 Documentation/glossary.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index e903abf..3f7b1e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -330,6 +330,12 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
 	denotes a particular <<def_object,object>>. These may be stored in
 	`$GIT_DIR/refs/`.
 
+[[def_reflog]]reflog::
+	A reflog shows the local "history" of a ref.  In other words,
+	it can tell you what the 3rd last revision in _this_ repository
+	was, and what was the current state in _this_ repository,
+	yesterday 9:14pm.  See gitlink:git-reflog[1] for details.
+
 [[def_refspec]]refspec::
 	A "refspec" is used by <<def_fetch,fetch>> and
 	<<def_push,push>> to describe the mapping between remote
-- 
1.5.3.rc0.2640.g59df9-dirty

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## Junio C Hamano, 2007-07-04 05:10

Subject: Re: [PATCH] glossary: add 'reflog'
Message-ID: <7v6450lpny.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v6450lpny.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707032128020.4071@racer.site>

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Thanks.

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