Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:40:42 +0100
>> 
>> git log --all --source
>
> This has the disadvantage of showing the branches in the obscure
> refs/foo/bar/branch format.  Its advantage (AFAIK) is that it will
> also show commits on remote branches that are not (yet) tracked by the
> repo (please correct me if I'm wrong).

git cannot magically show anything that isn't in the repo.  You are
probably thinking of git showing remote-tracking branches (those are
always destructively updated from the remote reference when fetching) as
well as local branches (which may or may not have a remote upstream).

-- 
David Kastrup