How to make Git Extensions browser show all commits like gitk --all

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Klas Mellbourn picture Klas Mellbourn · Mar 23, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

The Git Extensions repository browser seems to be more versatile than gitk in many ways.

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However, my very favorite command line option for gitk is --all. gitk --all shows all commits, including ones not reachable by any branch or tag. This is very useful for understanding what actually happens in git. For instance after a rebase you can still see the original commits that have been copied and abandoned (and even return to them with reset).

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Is there any way to make Git Extensions browser behave like gitk --all and show even unreachable commits?

Answer

ojchase picture ojchase · Apr 19, 2019

At the risk of stating the now-obvious, as of 2018's 2.51.RC2 release and newer, commits that can be reached via the reflog can now be displayed in Git Extensions. I'm not sure if this is exactly the same as gitk --all, but it does display many additional commits that are otherwise unreachable.

It appears to use git log --reflog behind the scenes.

The pull request is here, and it was released with 2.51.RC2.

Image of the "Show reflog references" option in the View menu in Git Extensions

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