Re: Bugreport

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

>> They are not graphically connected with the actual commits, they just
>> sit there over them. No other graphical
>> tool (Sublime Merge, IntelliJ Idea) displays them.
>
> They are Git notes. They form their own connected graph. That’s why they
> are not connected with the “actual commits” like from some branch.
>
> The `--all` will include all refs, including Git notes like
> `refs/notes/commits`.
>
> This doesn’t look like a bug.

Wow, I 100% agree with your conclusions, but it was unexpected even
to me that "git log --all" crawled anything outside branches,
remote-tracking branches, and tags.  I can sort-of understand why
the "rev-list" command at the plumbing layer may want to include
everything under refs/ hierarchy, but it is unexpected for the
end-user facing "git log".

Not that we want to or we can change it this late in the game,
though.  I wonder if "git log --all -p" also goes through the stash
refs as well as notes.