Re: Gnome chose Git

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

2009/3/19 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:50:39AM -0600, Pat Notz wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Why are people reinventing the reflog, and core.logallrefupdates ?
>> >
>>
>> Hmmm, lack of awareness of core.logallrefupdates in my case.  Thanks
>> for the pointer.
>
> But do note that reflogs expire eventually, so you will want to also
> look at gc.reflogexpire and gc.reflogexpireunreachable if you want to
> keep this as an activity log forever.

Outside of parsing the reflog directly, (which feels wrong and dirty
to me), how does one find out the times that a reflog entry was
created?

The closest thing i could find was git log -g, but that shows the time
of the commit that was switched to, not the time the reflog entry was
created. I dont see a --format pattern for it, and there doesnt seem
to be a switch to git reflog to do it. (I had initially (before
RTFM'ing) assumed that git reflog -v would show the times, but
apparently not).

If the times were easy to access then it would be much more useful as
a general logging facility.

cheers,
Yves




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