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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Thomas Guyot <tguyot@gmail•com>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	Gerriko io <gerriko.iot@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is reflog so obscure?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:18:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilo2we9o.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo7xuif46.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:23:53 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Thomas Guyot <tguyot@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> Thanks for clarifying that - I suspected it since we can do
>> <branch>@{<date>} although I didn't find any reference branch reflogs
>> in the documentation. I could've missed it... Is there a way to read a 
>> branch reflog?
>
>     $ git reflog ;# lists entries of reflog of HEAD, starting at HEAD@{0}
>     $ git reflog HEAD ;# same
>     $ git reflog HEAD@{4} ;# same, starting at HEAD@{4}
>     $ git reflog master ;# entries of reflog of "master"
>     $ git reflog master@{0} ;# same
>     $ git reflog master@{now} ;# same, show with timestamps
>     $ git reflog master@{4.minutes} ;# same, starting at master@{4.minutes}
>
> For the branch that is currently checked out, you can omit the name
> when you use any of the @{...} notation, so 
>
>     $ git reflog @{0}
>     $ git reflog @{now}
>
> are often the easiest ways to view what you did on the current
> branch.

Very handy, thanks! Would be nice to have this in EXAMPLES section of
corresponding manual page.

Honestly, I tried (admittedly not very hard) to figure how to get dates
from "git reflog" a few times, but every time I gave up, so this (along
with the --dates option turning dates output on) is not very
discoverable.

-- 
Sergey Organov

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-11 21:02 Why is reflog so obscure? Gerriko io
2022-07-11 22:55 ` Thomas Guyot
2022-07-12  7:12   ` Jeff King
2022-07-12  9:22     ` Thomas Guyot
2022-07-12 14:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-12 15:18         ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2022-07-12 15:50           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-14  0:03             ` Thomas Guyot

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