Re: [PATCH 3/3] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog message at the top.

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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I still am having a hard time trying to explain what these
>> commands would do, and why they might be useful:
>> 
>> 	git-log --walk-reflogs master..next
>
> I had less problems explaining that when walking fell back to walking the 
> parents.
>
> It could even make sense to...

(meaning that is not what the code does...)

> Of course, you could always say: if you ask for strange things, you will 
> get strange things.

But if you have to say that, doesn't it suggest that accepting
the option --walk-reflogs when you have anything other than one
single positive commit in revs.pending leads to end user
confusion?

That's what I was after.  The theme is the same about my
hesitation against --reverse.

On the other hand,

>> 	git-log --walk-reflogs master -- Documentation/
>
> Ah, but that is way easier!
>
> For example: I _know_ that something worked some time ago, and it was 
> probably in git.c. So ask "git-log --walk-reflogs -- git.c", and you will 
> soon find out where to start bisecting.

there is no reason to forbid pathspec when --walk-reflogs is in
effect, which I agree.

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