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Jakub Narebski cb877cd7b6 Document git reflog --stale-fix
Document --stale-fix, used in "git reflog expire --stale-fix --all"
to remove invalid reflog entries, to fix situation after running
non reflog-aware git-prune from an older git in the presence of
reflogs (see RelNotes-1.5.0.txt).

Based on description of commit 1389d9ddaa
  "reflog expire --fix-stale"
which introduced this option.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:08:12 -07:00

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git-reflog(1)
=============
NAME
----
git-reflog - Manage reflog information
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git reflog' <subcommand> <options>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
The command takes various subcommands, and different options
depending on the subcommand:
[verse]
git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix]
[--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
git reflog [show] [log-options]
Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are
updated. This command is to manage the information recorded in it.
The subcommand "expire" is used to prune older reflog entries.
Entries older than `expire` time, or entries older than
`expire-unreachable` time and are not reachable from the current
tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used
directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1].
The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absense of any
subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
the current branch. It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
--pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1].
OPTIONS
-------
--stale-fix::
This revamps the logic -- the definition of "broken commit"
becomes: a commit that is not reachable from any of the refs and
there is a missing object among the commit, tree, or blob
objects reachable from it that is not reachable from any of the
refs.
+
This computation involves traversing all the reachable objects, i.e. it
has the same cost as 'git prune'. Fortunately, once this is run, we
should not have to ever worry about missing objects, because the current
prune and pack-objects know about reflogs and protect objects referred by
them.
--expire=<time>::
Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`,
which in turn defaults to 90 days.
--expire-unreachable=<time>::
Entries older than this time and are not reachable from
the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the
option it is taken from configuration
`gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to
30 days.
--all::
Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs.
Author
------
Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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