Mark Polesky <[email protected]> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> but in my repository no commits authored by fred,
>
> Really? Can you try
> a281aedda8d5ea550f8b851822315cf154acee52 ?
commit a281aedda8d5ea550f8b851822315cf154acee52
Author: fred <fred>
Date: Wed Mar 27 02:56:08 2002 +0000
lilypond-1.5.47
But if I do
git log --reverse a281aedda8d5ea550f8b851822315cf154acee52..origin
the list starts with
commit 4f4ad24a3bfeb77cfd0ecca104319607bfd28a63
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Oct 9 14:04:46 1996 +0100
Initial.
commit 675bd3e6ea001c3af033b51a6e2eeab6a5809e86
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Oct 9 14:04:47 1996 +0200
release: 0.0.1
commit 727cdcbadf23c1986b0aed547aa645c9813f351b
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Oct 22 22:09:43 1996 +0200
release: 0.0.2
which strongly suggests that origin and the given commit do not have a
common history in the repository. So why is
a281aedda8d5ea550f8b851822315cf154acee52 still in there?
If I do git log --reverse a281aedda8d5 I get
commit 0ff96d5d41379dbb968507fd848642da518dc50b
Author: fred <fred>
Date: Tue Jul 18 00:23:16 1995 +0000
lilypond-1.0.1
commit 93d1d90d4645fc0f64ae310e0df224f00228ee78
Author: fred <fred>
Date: Thu Sep 21 11:20:44 1995 +0000
lilypond-1.0.1
as the purported starting point of the respective history. Usually that
kind of history would have fallen by the wayside during garbage
collection.
It turns out that
git log --remotes --reverse
starts with
commit 4f4ad24a3bfeb77cfd0ecca104319607bfd28a63
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Oct 9 14:04:46 1996 +0100
Initial.
while
git log --all --reverse
starts with
commit 0ff96d5d41379dbb968507fd848642da518dc50b
Author: fred <fred>
Date: Tue Jul 18 00:23:16 1995 +0000
lilypond-1.0.1
here. So apparently I have _local_ references that keep the old history
alive.
If I do
git log --all --reverse --source
then my history starts with
commit 0ff96d5d41379dbb968507fd848642da518dc50b refs/tags/release/1.7.25
Author: fred <fred>
Date: Tue Jul 18 00:23:16 1995 +0000
lilypond-1.0.1
So it is tags which keep the old history from getting garbage collected.
git tag -n 1000 | less
shows up quite a few strange tag annotations. Huh.
--
David Kastrup
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