Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Bill Lear]

Our company recently switched to git.  Our enthusiasm for git outweighs
the problems we have encountered so far, universally those of user
befuddlement, not git problems per se.

I have destroyed several repos by accidentally pulling from or pushing
to the wrong branch, not realizing this until later, and, trying what
I thought the proper way to undo it, failed that miserably.  I have
destroyed a few other repos by pulling from a "polluted" repo of a
co-worker that had mistakenly merged things in, and have had to resort
each time to full-scale reconstructions (again, almost trivially
accomplished thanks to git).  Thankfully, our company repo is so far
pristine, and I have been able to quickly reconstruct things and
continue working.

A co-worker just called to say he apparently had done something
similar, as he tried to pull from our company repo, got a conflict,
and then discovered files and changes to files that should not have
been on the master branch.  These files and changes do not exist in
our company repo, of that we are certain.

I'm not certain how I managed to screw up my repo, and he is equally
unsure of how he managed to screw up his.

I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.

I suppose this would need to include information about which branches
were affected as well.

% cat .git/repo.log
[....]
2007-02-07 10:05:44 git pull . .....
** Pull from master branch onto project branch
** Pull from foobar branch onto boobar branch
** ...
2007-02-07 10:05:44 git pull git://source/project master:project
** Your explanation here...

Would this sort of thing be easy to do?  I presume git does not
currently have support for this, but thought I would ask.


Bill

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Jakub Narebski]

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Bill Lear wrote:

> I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
> commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
> debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.
> 
[...]
> Would this sort of thing be easy to do?  I presume git does not
> currently have support for this, but thought I would ask.

If all commands were run via git wrapper (and all scripts would
use git-command version, perhaps with exception of gitweb), it
would be fairly easy to do (although this should probably be
repository config variable).

Is history of shell commands too short? Reflogs doesn't help
(concatenate all reflogs, perhaps preceding them with file name,
and sort by date) either?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Bill Lear]

On Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 23:29:56 (+0100) Jakub Narebski writes:
>...
>Is history of shell commands too short? Reflogs doesn't help
>(concatenate all reflogs, perhaps preceding them with file name,
>and sort by date) either?

Well, I thought of shell history also, but the problem is, that we often
have multiple repos on a machine (we may be executing a long-running
experiment in one, for example, and not want to disturb it).

Shell history in that case doesn't help.  Also, not having the branch
information is a minus (each of us puts the current git branch in our
prompt).

I didn't know about reflogs.  What did you have in mind?  Could you
show an example, please?


Bill

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Jakub Narebski]

Bill Lear wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 23:29:56 (+0100) Jakub Narebski writes:
>>...
>> Is history of shell commands too short? Reflogs doesn't help
>> (concatenate all reflogs, perhaps preceding them with file name,
>> and sort by date) either?
> 
> Well, I thought of shell history also, but the problem is, that we often
> have multiple repos on a machine (we may be executing a long-running
> experiment in one, for example, and not want to disturb it).
> 
> Shell history in that case doesn't help.  Also, not having the branch
> information is a minus (each of us puts the current git branch in our
> prompt).

Fact. Although in worst case, if shell history is deep enough, you could
do forensic on it... unless you use multiple shells, freely interspersing
commands in them...
 
> I didn't know about reflogs.  What did you have in mind?  Could you
> show an example, please?

Unfortunately till some time ago reflogs were not enabled by default.
If they are enabled, for each branch you should have 
$GIT_DIR/logs/refs/heads/<branch> file, which contains information about
operations on given branch. It has pre- and post-operation commit ids,
and timestamp of a change, together with short description. You could
concatenate reflogs, and sort them by timestamp.

Reflogs are purely local matter, they represent local view of history.

See git-update-ref(1), "Logging Updates" section, git-repo-config(1)
(or git-config(1)), description of core.logAllRefUpdates variable,
and Git User's Manual.


Examples (sha1 are shortened, and lines are broken for easier reading):

 * .git/logs/refs/heads/origin
 798123... e68989... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170836783 +0100 \
    pull origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git: fast-forward
 e68989... 6506e1... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170873620 +0100 \
   fetch origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git: fast-forward

 * git/logs/refs/heads/master
 93342d... 39daf6... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1169555797 +0100 \
   commit: t/t1300-repo-config.sh: value continued on next line
 39daf6... b62502... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1169809125 +0100 \
   commit (merge): Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
 b62502... 7ab704... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170150241 +0100 \
   pull origin: Merge made by recursive.
 7ab704... bb77c5... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170238531 +0100 \
   pull origin: In-index merge

 * git/logs/refs/heads/gitweb/web
 ceae8a... a29878... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1169973601 +0100 \
   commit: Git config file reader in Perl (WIP 5)
 a29878... 1b600e... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170034498 +0100 \
   reset --hard 1b600e659abc7e409c9d830e332d3cef010
 62c1c1... 05b936... Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 1170034499 +0100 \
   rebase: Git config file reader in Perl (WIP 1)
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> 
> I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
> commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
> debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.

The "reflog" is kind of that, and you can literally do

	less .git/logs/refs/heads/master

to get some kind of idea what's up.

Newer gits enable reflogs by default, older gits don't (and *really* old 
git versions don't support it at all).

Of course, we should probably just have a

	git reflog show

command for this to make it prettier.

NOTE! It's very much per-repository. When you push out your changes, your 
reflog stays private.

			Linus

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Junio C Hamano]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>> 
>> I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
>> commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
>> debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.
>
> The "reflog" is kind of that, and you can literally do
>
> 	less .git/logs/refs/heads/master
>
> to get some kind of idea what's up.
>
> Newer gits enable reflogs by default, older gits don't (and *really* old 
> git versions don't support it at all).
>
> Of course, we should probably just have a
>
> 	git reflog show
>
> command for this to make it prettier.

	$ git log -g?

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 	$ git log -g?

	[git (build)]$ git log -g?
	fatal: unrecognized argument: -g?

I think its:

	[git (build)]$ git log -g ?
	commit 6506e156d99bd406661cd5d2e502db7c0960d716
	Reflog: HEAD@{0} (Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>)
	Reflog message: merge origin/master: Fast forward
	Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
	...

at least with bash.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > Of course, we should probably just have a
> >
> > 	git reflog show
> >
> > command for this to make it prettier.
> 
> 	$ git log -g?

You think that is *prettier*?

No, I think that if I want a log, I'll just do the "less", thank you very 
much ;)

		Linus

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Junio C Hamano]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >
>> > Of course, we should probably just have a
>> >
>> > 	git reflog show
>> >
>> > command for this to make it prettier.
>> 
>> 	$ git log -g?
>
> You think that is *prettier*?
>
> No, I think that if I want a log, I'll just do the "less", thank you very 
> much ;)

Heh, I do not care if you find "log -g" pretty, since I do not
particularly find it pretty ("log --pretty=o --abbrev-commit -g"
is probably prettier than "less").

I usually use "show-branch -g" myself while rewinding and
rebuilding for a release, but my rewinds are lot more controlled
than "oops, made a mistake" recovery schenario that triggered
this discussion; for large logs (more than 25 entries) it is not
very useful.

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Heh, I do not care if you find "log -g" pretty, since I do not
> particularly find it pretty ("log --pretty=o --abbrev-commit -g"
> is probably prettier than "less").

With "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" I'll agree that it's actually 
fairly pretty.

Maybe we can make "-g" default to that? As it is, I'd otherwise still use 
"less" just because there is less typing...

			Linus

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Jakub Narebski]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Heh, I do not care if you find "log -g" pretty, since I do not
>> particularly find it pretty ("log --pretty=o --abbrev-commit -g"
>> is probably prettier than "less").
> 
> With "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" I'll agree that it's actually 
> fairly pretty.

By the way, --abbrev-commit is currently not documented...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Heh, I do not care if you find "log -g" pretty, since I do not
> > particularly find it pretty ("log --pretty=o --abbrev-commit -g"
> > is probably prettier than "less").
> 
> With "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" I'll agree that it's actually 
> fairly pretty.
> 
> Maybe we can make "-g" default to that? As it is, I'd otherwise still use 
> "less" just because there is less typing...

I don't care either way. I'd even appreciate somebody harvesting the 
low-hanging fruit of making "git reflog show" a wrapper to "git log -p".

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: Sorry, Shawn, but I don't think that my version "won". It was 
modeled after yours, but introduced flexibility to use reflog walking to 
other revision walkers. So, I think of it as the "next" version of your 
"git reflog show".

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> P.S.: Sorry, Shawn, but I don't think that my version "won". It was 
> modeled after yours, but introduced flexibility to use reflog walking to 
> other revision walkers. So, I think of it as the "next" version of your 
> "git reflog show".

Don't be sorry. I think your -g reused more existing code than my
`git reflog show` did, and you had the time to follow through on it
when Junio was interested in a patch while I didn't.  It really did
win as the better solution for Git.  And that's all that matters. :-)

-- 
Shawn.

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Junio C Hamano]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> With "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" I'll agree that it's actually 
> fairly pretty.
>
> Maybe we can make "-g" default to that? As it is, I'd otherwise still use 
> "less" just because there is less typing...
>
> 			Linus

Well, you would not know if the user gave you '-g' before you
ask setup_revisions() to parse the options, and once you let it
do its thing, you would not know if it also found an explicit
output format given by the end user, so your cannot sanely make
default depend on '-g'.

I suspect that it would have to be either somewhat involved or
outright hacky.  

---

 builtin-log.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 982d871..0221c76 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -22,8 +22,21 @@ static void cmd_log_init(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 {
 	int i;
 
-	rev->abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;
 	rev->commit_format = CMIT_FMT_DEFAULT;
+	if (!strcmp(argv[0], "log")) {
+		/* first see if there is "-g" */
+		for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+			if (!strcmp("--", argv[i]))
+				break;
+			if (!strcmp("-g", argv[i]) ||
+			    !strcmp("--walk-reflogs", argv[i])) {
+				rev->abbrev_commit = 1;
+				rev->commit_format = CMIT_FMT_ONELINE;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	rev->abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;
 	rev->verbose_header = 1;
 	rev->show_root_diff = default_show_root;
 	argc = setup_revisions(argc, argv, rev, "HEAD");

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > With "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" I'll agree that it's actually 
> > fairly pretty.
> >
> > Maybe we can make "-g" default to that? As it is, I'd otherwise still use 
> > "less" just because there is less typing...
> >
> > 			Linus
> 
> Well, you would not know if the user gave you '-g' before you
> ask setup_revisions() to parse the options, and once you let it
> do its thing, you would not know if it also found an explicit
> output format given by the end user, so your cannot sanely make
> default depend on '-g'.
> 
> I suspect that it would have to be either somewhat involved or
> outright hacky.  

Well, we could always make CMIT_FMT_DEFAULT _not_be the same as _MEDIUM, 
and if it still is the same _after_ parsing the options, set it to MEDIUM 
explicitely. Same goes for the abbrev thing.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Junio C Hamano]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> Well, you would not know if the user gave you '-g' before you
>> ask setup_revisions() to parse the options, and once you let it
>> do its thing, you would not know if it also found an explicit
>> output format given by the end user, so your cannot sanely make
>> default depend on '-g'.
>> 
>> I suspect that it would have to be either somewhat involved or
>> outright hacky.  
>
> Well, we could always make CMIT_FMT_DEFAULT _not_be the same as _MEDIUM, 
> and if it still is the same _after_ parsing the options, set it to MEDIUM 
> explicitely. Same goes for the abbrev thing.

I think we are in agreement.  I showed an outright hacky one
because I am not ready to do somewhat involved one at the end of
the rc period.

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> Well, you would not know if the user gave you '-g' before you
> >> ask setup_revisions() to parse the options, and once you let it
> >> do its thing, you would not know if it also found an explicit
> >> output format given by the end user, so your cannot sanely make
> >> default depend on '-g'.
> >> 
> >> I suspect that it would have to be either somewhat involved or
> >> outright hacky.  
> >
> > Well, we could always make CMIT_FMT_DEFAULT _not_be the same as _MEDIUM, 
> > and if it still is the same _after_ parsing the options, set it to MEDIUM 
> > explicitely. Same goes for the abbrev thing.
> 
> I think we are in agreement.  I showed an outright hacky one
> because I am not ready to do somewhat involved one at the end of
> the rc period.

I fully agree. That's also why I am not pressing on other changes.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I think we are in agreement.  I showed an outright hacky one
> because I am not ready to do somewhat involved one at the end of
> the rc period.

How about this?

It makes "git reflog [show]" act as

	git log -g --pretty=oneline --abbrev-cmit

and is fairly straightforward. So you can just write

	git reflog

or 

	git reflog show

and it will show you the reflog in a nice format.

		Linus

---
 Documentation/git-reflog.txt |   17 +++++++++++++----
 builtin-log.c                |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 builtin-reflog.c             |   18 ++++++++++++------
 builtin.h                    |    1 +
 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index 1138865..bc7c987 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -8,13 +8,18 @@ git-reflog - Manage reflog information
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-[verse]
-'git-reflog' expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix]
-	[--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
-
+'git reflog' <subcommand> <options> 
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+The command takes various subcommands, and different options
+depending on the subcommand:
+
+[verse]
+git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix]
+	[--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
+
+git reflog [show] [log-options]
 
 Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are
 updated.  This command is to manage the information recorded in it.
@@ -25,6 +30,10 @@ Entries older than `expire` time, or entries older than
 tip, are removed from the reflog.  This is typically not used
 directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1].
 
+The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absense of any
+subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
+the current branch. It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
+--pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1].
 
 
 OPTIONS
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 982d871..af2de54 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "log-tree.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "tag.h"
+#include "reflog-walk.h"
 
 static int default_show_root = 1;
 
@@ -181,6 +182,37 @@ int cmd_show(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This is equivalent to "git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline"
+ */
+int cmd_log_reflog(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
+{
+	struct rev_info rev;
+
+	git_config(git_log_config);
+	init_revisions(&rev, prefix);
+	init_reflog_walk(&rev.reflog_info);
+	rev.abbrev_commit = 1;
+	rev.verbose_header = 1;
+	cmd_log_init(argc, argv, prefix, &rev);
+
+	/*
+	 * This means that we override whatever commit format the user gave
+	 * on the cmd line.  Sad, but cmd_log_init() currently doesn't
+	 * allow us to set a different default.
+	 */
+	rev.commit_format = CMIT_FMT_ONELINE;
+	rev.always_show_header = 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * We get called through "git reflog", so unlike the other log
+	 * routines, we need to set up our pager manually..
+	 */
+	setup_pager();
+
+	return cmd_log_walk(&rev);
+}
+
 int cmd_log(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	struct rev_info rev;
diff --git a/builtin-reflog.c b/builtin-reflog.c
index bfb169a..65b845b 100644
--- a/builtin-reflog.c
+++ b/builtin-reflog.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  */
 
 static const char reflog_expire_usage[] =
-"git-reflog expire [--verbose] [--dry-run] [--stale-fix] [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...";
+"git-reflog (show|expire) [--verbose] [--dry-run] [--stale-fix] [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...";
 
 static unsigned long default_reflog_expire;
 static unsigned long default_reflog_expire_unreachable;
@@ -372,10 +372,16 @@ static const char reflog_usage[] =
 
 int cmd_reflog(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
-	if (argc < 2)
-		usage(reflog_usage);
-	else if (!strcmp(argv[1], "expire"))
+	/* With no command, we default to showing it. */
+	if (argc < 2 || *argv[1] == '-')
+		return cmd_log_reflog(argc, argv, prefix);
+
+	if (!strcmp(argv[1], "show"))
+		return cmd_log_reflog(argc - 1, argv + 1, prefix);
+
+	if (!strcmp(argv[1], "expire"))
 		return cmd_reflog_expire(argc - 1, argv + 1, prefix);
-	else
-		usage(reflog_usage);
+
+	/* Not a recognized reflog command..*/
+	usage(reflog_usage);
 }
diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index dd0e352..5108fd2 100644
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ extern int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_init_db(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_log(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
+extern int cmd_log_reflog(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_ls_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_mailinfo(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > I think we are in agreement.  I showed an outright hacky one
> > because I am not ready to do somewhat involved one at the end of
> > the rc period.
> 
> How about this?
>
> [...]
> 
>  Documentation/git-reflog.txt |   17 +++++++++++++----

Wow: documentation by Linus! ;-)

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt

Not using commit & format-patch?

> index 1138865..bc7c987 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
> @@ -8,13 +8,18 @@ git-reflog - Manage reflog information
>  
>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
> -[verse]
> -'git-reflog' expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix]
> -	[--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
> -
> +'git reflog' <subcommand> <options> 

This line has white space at the end.

Besides those (TIC) comments, I also have this one: Looks good to me!

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Of course, we should probably just have a
> 
> 	git reflog show
> 
> command for this to make it prettier.

I tried that (I submitted patches to create `git reflog show`).
Dscho's `git log -g` was the better candidate, and won.
Its already in git.git's master branch.

-- 
Shawn.

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Bill Lear]

On Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 14:49:50 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
>...
>The "reflog" is kind of that, and you can literally do
>
>	less .git/logs/refs/heads/master
>
>to get some kind of idea what's up.
>
>Newer gits enable reflogs by default, older gits don't (and *really* old 
>git versions don't support it at all).

Ah, I don't seem to have .git/logs at all.

We plan to upgrade to 1.5 when it's out, so I guess we'll just
have to wait.


Bill

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> 
> Ah, I don't seem to have .git/logs at all.
> 
> We plan to upgrade to 1.5 when it's out, so I guess we'll just
> have to wait.

Even with the git you have, you can probably just do a

	git repo-config --global core.logallrefupdates true

and you'll have reflogs enabled for all of your repositories (well, at 
least the ones that share that home directory and thus ~/.gitconfig)

		Linus

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Bill Lear]

On Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 15:29:40 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
>...
>Even with the git you have, you can probably just do a
>
>	git repo-config --global core.logallrefupdates true
>
>and you'll have reflogs enabled for all of your repositories (well, at 
>least the ones that share that home directory and thus ~/.gitconfig)

Ok, this is good to know, thank you.


Bill

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Newer gits enable reflogs by default [...]

This, btw, is only true for non-bare ones. 

In particular, if you only _push_ to a repository, it won't have reflogs 
enabled by default, because pushing is a "bare git" action even if it 
actually has a working tree (because the push will ignore the working tree 
and enter the ".git" directory itself).

So even with new git, if you want to have reflogs enabled for shared 
repositories that people push to (as opposed to the individual *developer* 
repositories), you need to enable reflogs by hand (either in the git 
config file, or by just creating the empty log file).

		Linus

Re: Git log of all (modifying) commands run on a repo?

[Johannes Sixt]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> >
> > I thought that it would be very useful to have a history of git
> > commands that have been run against a repo, in order to hopefully
> > debug this sort of thing --- perhaps only those that modify the repo.
> 
> The "reflog" is kind of that, and you can literally do
> 
>         less .git/logs/refs/heads/master
> 
> to get some kind of idea what's up.

Or something like this:

find .git/logs -type f | xargs cat | sort -t'>' -k2 -n | less

-- Hannes