From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: show detached HEAD if --all is specified Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:02:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1410247756-10879-1-git-send-email-max@max630.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paul Mackerras , git@vger.kernel.org To: Max Kirillov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 09 19:03:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XROom-0004QV-Bl for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:03:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757339AbaIIRC4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:02:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:50051 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754492AbaIIRCz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:02:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3156A376BE; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:02:55 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=hYqreWLBHAbfFoRzf8xf7tXQ4SM=; b=Fy9Jzy lOu2VCbaMh35JwzlCKIEBYvqEQ+VwtZrWfsoicH5r72PWR7Mof0bqKErOt974YXg QM2OGyPnU9ZAA+Rrrr/IC9ItrT8wpDePWX68ViHJPaUKVfW6cjazyhODK5fnXG9U P/XbGG5w11d971DYrm6u0o12W9IqIe7Uzl+Kc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=o8aRoyzhvlPTKyZVXdyOHaCr+5JWHQw3 MZZb3llk+z6ncrZyhI/KMZMxbc/g1SdI+7JGNUHs6T2GAtPxA5LZTAN1hIibBedS sn1HHwOYiRv5RkP5ZPNn1n9BqCbCQJa8d+BvcKzZ7fuALB4NKvWvMgaXWu/urB6u MvOqFSjMqQs= Received: from pb-smtp0. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F8A376BD; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:02:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E275376BB; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:02:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1410247756-10879-1-git-send-email-max@max630.net> (Max Kirillov's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:29:16 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 240A23B6-3843-11E4-9910-BD2DC4D60FE0-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Max Kirillov 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?