v1.5.0.txt: HEAD reflog is almost ready.
I plan to merge Nico's reflog-on-HEAD before 1.5.0, so describe it here.
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -212,12 +212,20 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
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"branch@{Nth}" notation.
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- "git show-branch" learned showing the reflog data with the
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- new --reflog option. "git log" has --walk-reflogs option to
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- view reflog entries in a more verbose manner.
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+ new -g option. "git log" has -s option to view reflog
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+ entries in a more verbose manner.
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- git-branch knows how to rename branches and moves existing
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reflog data from the old branch to the new one.
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+ - In addition to the reflog support in v1.4.4 series, HEAD
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+ reference maintains its own log. "HEAD@{5.minutes.ago}"
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+ means the commit you were at 5 minutes ago, which takes
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+ branch switching into account. If you want to know where the
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+ tip of your current branch was at 5 minutes ago, you need to
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+ explicitly say its name (e.g. "master@{5.minutes.ago}") or
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+ omit the refname altogether i.e. "@{5.minutes.ago}".
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- The commits referred to by reflog entries are now protected
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against pruning. The new command "git reflog expire" can be
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used to truncate older reflog entries and entries that refer