git-reflog

We are using throwaway integration branches which are pushed, and then later deleted and recreated. However the discarded branches are leaving dangling commits and trees which I can view with this command: git fsck --unreachable --no-reflogs I could clean them up with git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all git gc --prune=now or something similar, but I want to understand the scope of these commands and related configuration first. So the specific questions: So that new clones are lean, how can I gc prune and clear the reflogs, not just locally but also on our remote repository hosted

I noticed in the documentation you can specify the parameter --grep-reflog --grep-reflog=<pattern> Limit the commits output to ones with reflog entries that match the specified pattern (regular expression). With more than one --grep-reflog, commits whose reflog message matches any of the given patterns are chosen. It is an error to use this option unless --walk-reflogs is in use. I kind of wanted clarification on how this is different from --grep . What benefit is there for looking through actions made through the git reflog s? Is it just so you know what is available in git reflog so if you

I have a repository for which a regular git reflog --date=iso shows a lot of entries, for example see this fragment https://gist.github.com/FreddieChopin/0206c9ef530a056c624b065eed048c9d As you may notice, there are reflogs for 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th of February. But if I would like to limit the output to certain dates, this doesn't work as expected. For example git reflog --date=iso --since="2017-02-20" gives only this https://gist.github.com/FreddieChopin/fb7619dee8fde055a1cce6f6ff2f6eb6 - it stops at "52896f49 HEAD@{2017-02-24 20:53:29 +0100}", even though there are reflogs

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... As the man page writes you can use the options for git log , say git reflog --pretty=short or any other as you like try git reflog --date=iso You can use the --walk-reflogs variant of git log : git log -g This is rather verbose by default, and prints the date among other things. You

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. ben_h git log shows the current HEAD and its ancestry. That is, it prints the commit HEAD points to, then its parent, its parent, and so on. It traverses back through the repo's ancestry, by recursively looking up each commit's parent. (In practice, some commits have more than one parent. To see a more representative log, use a command like git log --oneline --graph --decorate .) git reflog doesn

I added some files to the index but then by mistake I deleted them with git reset --hard . How do I recover them? Here's what happened: I added all files using git add . I then committed When I checked the status, there were still files that weren't included in the commit from the add, which was strange I added the untracked files again and it worked this time But I wanted everything to be in 1 single commit so I looked up how to unstage what I just committed I used git reset --hard HEAD^ — bad idea obviously, all files were deleted so then I used git reflog to find where I left off then I