If a revision is specified, it happens not to have any commits, don't use the default revision. By doing so, surprising and undesired behavior can happen, such as showing the reflog for HEAD when a branch was specified. Signed-off-by: Dave Olszewski <cxreg@xxxxxxxxx> --- >> I was testing a patch along the lines of >> what Vladimir proposed, which was simply to not set the default rev if a >> valid user-specified argument was found, whether or not it contains >> commits. > >Sounds more like it. How did the tests go? Does it result in empty >output (which is what I would expect from an empty reflog, now that I >stopped and thought about it for a second)? It seems to work ok(tm) revision.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index 29721ec..490b484 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ static void append_prune_data(const char ***prune_data, const char **av) */ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const char *def) { - int i, flags, left, seen_dashdash, read_from_stdin; + int i, flags, left, seen_dashdash, read_from_stdin, got_rev_arg = 0; const char **prune_data = NULL; /* First, search for "--" */ @@ -1460,6 +1460,8 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch append_prune_data(&prune_data, argv + i); break; } + else + got_rev_arg = 1; } if (prune_data) @@ -1469,7 +1471,7 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch revs->def = def; if (revs->show_merge) prepare_show_merge(revs); - if (revs->def && !revs->pending.nr) { + if (revs->def && !revs->pending.nr && !got_rev_arg) { unsigned char sha1[20]; struct object *object; unsigned mode; -- 1.7.0.2.202.g4e870.dirty -- 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