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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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)
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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