Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 22.10.2009 22:37: > When discussing differences between concept and implementation > of branches in Git and in Mercurial on StackOverflow[1] (abusing > SO comment system a bit), Steve Losh[2] wrote that he was surprised > by the fact that "git log --all" doesn't include commits made > on detached HEAD. > > While documentation clearly states: > > --all Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are listed > on the command line as <commit>. > > and HEAD is in `$GIT_DIR/HEAD`, which is outside `$GIT_DIR/refs/`, > it is nevertheless a bit strange that "git log --all" doesn't list > all (everything). > > This is of course only an issue if we are on detached HEAD; I guess > that semantics of `--all` option to git-log predates this feature. > > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial-compare-and-contrast/1599930#1599930 > [2] http://stevelosh.com/blog/entry/2009/8/30/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/ > ...OK, finally found it: Dscho did just that in f0298cf (revision walker: include a detached HEAD in --all, 2009-01-16) which is in v1.6.1.3 and later. Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html