The man page says that log shows the commit logs and reflog manages reflog information. What exactly is reflog information and what does it have that the log doesn’t? The log seems far more detailed. 7 Answers 7
I’m afraid I couldn’t find anything quite like this particular scenario. I have a git repository with a lot of history: 500+ branches, 500+ tags, going back to mid-2007. It contains ~19,500 commits. We’d like to remove all of the history before Jan 1, 2010, to make it smaller and easier to deal with (we … Read more
In Git, I was trying to do a squash commit by merging in another branch and then resetting HEAD to the previous place via: git reset origin/master But I need to step out of this. How can I move HEAD back to the previous location? I have the SHA-1 fragment (23b6772) of the commit that … Read more
The git-reflog command doesn’t by default show a date alongside each entry, which strikes me as a strange oversight; I think this would be very helpful. Are there any command-line options, or other tweaks, which can be employed to cause it to show when each reflog entry was added? The manpage isn’t forthcoming… 9 Answers … Read more
