reflog weirdness

reflog weirdness

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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hello,

i use git-1.5.3.5 and see the following fragment from "git reflog"
(not inline due to binary values):


[-- Attachment #2: fragment of \"git reflog\" output --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 384 bytes --]

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i'd like to get rid of (or somehow get git to hide) the {21} line.
any hints?

thi

Re: reflog weirdness

[Junio C Hamano]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> i'd like to get rid of (or somehow get git to hide) the {21} line.
> any hints?

$ vi .git/logs/HEAD

and truncate that line after "commit: " to remove the part that
would normally show the one-line commit log message.

It would be more interesting to know why garbage follows
"commit: " on that one entry, though.  How does commit 20d9d23
look like (the tracked contents are not interesting --- the
commit log message is)?

Re: reflog weirdness

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
() Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:20:16 -0800

   $ vi .git/logs/HEAD

   and truncate that line after "commit: " to remove the
   part that would normally show the one-line commit log
   message.

thanks for the tip.  i'll do that as soon as i've had a
chance to ponder the repercussions.  in the meantime...

   How does commit 20d9d23 look like (the tracked contents
   are not interesting --- the commit log message is)?

here is the (again, not inlined due to strange bytes) top of
"git show 20d9d23" output:


[-- Attachment #2: top of \"git show\" output --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 257 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #3: Type: text/plain, Size: 138 bytes --]


i see that the body of the log message (three bytes)
corresponds to the first three bytes of the associated
line in .git/logs/HEAD.

thi

Re: reflog weirdness

[Junio C Hamano]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> i see that the body of the log message (three bytes)
> corresponds to the first three bytes of the associated
> line in .git/logs/HEAD.

Thanks.

Was it a buggy "git commit" command, or a bad commit log message
was fed to "git commit" by the user, and there is nothing for me
to worry about?

Re: reflog weirdness

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
() Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:01:55 -0800

   Was it a buggy "git commit" command, or a bad commit log
   message was fed to "git commit" by the user, and there is
   nothing for me to worry about?

i'm sorry, even though it was only a couple days ago, the actual
events are far back in my memory, so i can't say.  i wouldn't
worry about it -- probably user error.  (i'm new w/ git.  most of
the time i drive it from w/in emacs, which is well behaved; it is
when i leave that comparative safety to do some flailing from the
command-line that things go weird.)

i suppose one way to improve git would be to test how it handles
interruption (control-c in the middle of a commit, for example).
a bit tricky to arrange (reproducibly), though...

now i go search the docs for how to replace that log message.

thi

Re: reflog weirdness

[Junio C Hamano]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> () Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:01:55 -0800
>
>    Was it a buggy "git commit" command, or a bad commit log
>    message was fed to "git commit" by the user, and there is
>    nothing for me to worry about?
>
> i'm sorry, even though it was only a couple days ago, the actual
> events are far back in my memory, so i can't say.  i wouldn't
> worry about it -- probably user error.  (i'm new w/ git.  most of
> the time i drive it from w/in emacs, which is well behaved; it is
> when i leave that comparative safety to do some flailing from the
> command-line that things go weird.)
>
> i suppose one way to improve git would be to test how it handles
> interruption (control-c in the middle of a commit, for example).
> a bit tricky to arrange (reproducibly), though...
>
> now i go search the docs for how to replace that log message.

"git-rebase -i"

Re: reflog weirdness

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
() Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:06:36 -0800

   "git-rebase -i"

thanks.  works great.

thi