Re: ghost refs

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:55AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com> writes:
> 
> > In git-branch,
> >
> > 	-l
> >
> > 	    Create the branch's reflog. This activates recording of all
> > 	    changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date based
> > 	    sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@{yesterday}".
> 
> That is how you selectively enable reflog for that particular branch when
> you have explicitly disabled "reflog by default" with the configuration.

Maybe:

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify "branch -l"

This option is mostly useless these days because we turn on
reflogs by default in non-bare repos.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/git-branch.txt |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 903a690..d78f4c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Create the branch's reflog.  This activates recording of
 	all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
 	based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
+	Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually
+	enabled by default by the `core.logallrefupdates` config option.
 
 -f::
 --force::
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