git/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
Shawn O. Pearce 95064cbcc8 Correct documentation of 'reflog show' to explain it shows HEAD
By default 'git reflog show' will show the reflog of 'HEAD' and not
the reflog of the current branch.  This is most likely due to the
work done a while ago as part of the detached HEAD series to allow
HEAD to have its own reflog independent of each branch's reflog.

Since 'git reflog show' is really just an obscure alias for 'git
log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline' it should behave the same
way and its documentation should match.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19 11:38:53 -07:00

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git-reflog(1)
=============
NAME
----
git-reflog - Manage reflog information
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git reflog' <subcommand> <options>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
The command takes various subcommands, and different options
depending on the subcommand:
[verse]
git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix]
[--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
git reflog [show] [log-options]
Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are
updated. This command is to manage the information recorded in it.
The subcommand "expire" is used to prune older reflog entries.
Entries older than `expire` time, or entries older than
`expire-unreachable` time and are not reachable from the current
tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used
directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1].
The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absense of any
subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
`HEAD`, which will cover all recent actions, including branch switches.
It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
--pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1].
OPTIONS
-------
--stale-fix::
This revamps the logic -- the definition of "broken commit"
becomes: a commit that is not reachable from any of the refs and
there is a missing object among the commit, tree, or blob
objects reachable from it that is not reachable from any of the
refs.
+
This computation involves traversing all the reachable objects, i.e. it
has the same cost as 'git prune'. Fortunately, once this is run, we
should not have to ever worry about missing objects, because the current
prune and pack-objects know about reflogs and protect objects referred by
them.
--expire=<time>::
Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`,
which in turn defaults to 90 days.
--expire-unreachable=<time>::
Entries older than this time and are not reachable from
the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration
`gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to
30 days.
--all::
Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs.
Author
------
Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite