Subject: Re: (unknown)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:20:04 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Andy Parkins <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 2006, October 25 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> > I did try that, but then the branches don't appear in git branch.  I
>>> > still like that they exist.
>>>
>>> "git branch -r" perhaps.
>>
>> That's pretty good.  It makes things like
>>
>>   git-log remotes/origin/master..master
>>
>> A bit long winded, but it's certainly what I asked for.
>
> "git log remotes/origin..master" perhaps?
>
> The point being, remotes/origin when origin is a directory that
> has HEAD that points at something, it stands for
> remotes/origin/HEAD.

Heh, I spoke too fast.

	"git log origin..master"

If you do not have none of .git/origin, .git/refs/origin,
.git/refs/tags/origin, .git/refs/heads/origin, nor
.git/refs/remotes/origin, then .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is
what "origin" means (see get_sha1_basic() in sha1_name.c).