On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:40 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22 2021, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:39 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We can know with !strcmp(rows[0][1], rows[1][0]) whether the latest > >> update is a ff or non-ff (it is). As opposed to: > >> > >> $ cut -d ' ' -f1-2 .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/seen | head -n 2 > >> 8b26a41f4bf7e7c0f097cb91012d08fe8ae30e7f 0f3a981cbd5be5f97e9504ab770cd88f988fe820 > >> 0f3a981cbd5be5f97e9504ab770cd88f988fe820 fdd019edfe6bc60d0100d5751c41e4f6ad28a2ef > >> > >> Where the rows[0][1] value is not the same as rows[1][0]. > > > > I'm confused. > > > > rows[0][1] == "0f3a981cbd5be5f97e9504ab770cd88f988fe820" > > rows[1][0] == "0f3a981cbd5be5f97e9504ab770cd88f988fe820" > > > > they are the same. I don't understand your argument. > > Sorry, I mean same = ff update, not the same = non-ff. So I flipped > those around in describing it. > > But in any case, the point is that you can reliably tell from a log of > updates whether individual updates are ff or non-ff, as long as you: ? $ git checkout -b non-ff origin/master Previous HEAD position was 59f4325222 Add "test-tool dump-reftable" command. Branch 'non-ff' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Switched to a new branch 'non-ff' $ git reset --hard HEAD^ HEAD is now at 56a57652ef Sync with Git 2.30.2 for CVE-2021-21300 $ cat .git/logs/refs/heads/non-ff 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 13d7ab6b5d7929825b626f050b62a11241ea4945 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1616432938 +0100 branch: Created from origin/master 13d7ab6b5d7929825b626f050b62a11241ea4945 56a57652ef8e4ca2f108a8719b8caeed5e153c95 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1616432948 +0100 reset: moving to HEAD^ How can I tell from this reflog that "moving to HEAD^" is a non-FF update? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich I work 80%. Don't expect answers from me on Fridays. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado