git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git log -g: Complain, but do not fail, when no reflogs are there
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:16:21 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241014500.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707240026v4321a709wcbbbd7b67a4c506b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 7/24/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > When asking "git log -g --all", clearly you want to see only those refs
> > that do have reflogs, but you do not want it to fail, either.
> > 
> > So instead of die()ing, complain about it, but move on to the other refs.
> > 
> 
> I believe you wont even see these complaints: the pager will start shortly
> afterwards and fill the screen with commits, completely hiding the errors.

You can see it briefly, but it is hidden by default.  Which is a good 
thing.  If you set the pager to "cat" (which is happily not the default!) 
you can see them clearly.  Until you are swamped by the rest of the 
output.

Maybe this is a feature?

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23 23:39 [PATCH] git log -g: Complain, but do not fail, when no reflogs are there Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-24  5:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-24  9:14   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-24  7:26 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-24  9:16   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-07-24 10:17     ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-24 11:11       ` Johannes Schindelin

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241014500.14781@racer.site \
    --to=johannes.schindelin@gmx.de \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=raa.lkml@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).