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dandan78
dandan78

Reputation: 13925

Xcode 9 Source Control Navigator does not display all commits

If I compare the output of git log and the commit history in the Xcode 9 Source Control Navigator, there is a marked difference and many recent commits tend to be missing. For instance, right now git log lists 10 commits from today, whereas only 5 are visible in Xcode. I think Xcode's commit history does update occasionaly, but I haven't noticed any patterns in its behavior. In any case, I do not recall this being a problem up until Xcode 9 and the changes it includes to how source control is handled.

I've tried switching to another branch and then back to master. The Pull and Fetch and Refresh Status items in the Source Control menu have no effect. In Preferences/Source Control, Refresh Local Status Automatically is enabled. Restarting Xcode also does not help.

Admittedly, I do tend to do most of my interaction with git (pull, commit, push etc.) from a separate terminal window. Xcode is of course much easier to use for diffing.

Here are two screenshots that illustrate the issue (5 vs 15 commits):

xcode git log output abbreviated git log output

This image shows the output of git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all.

git log graph output

Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1384

Answers (1)

Marina Liu
Marina Liu

Reputation: 38136

Commits are not missing to show in xcode.

The different results caused by xcode only show the commits on master branch, while git log show the commits for all branches.

You can obviously find in the output of git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all that the commits ce514, 12b6a, ef7a0, ccdfc etc on master branch, while the commits from 8487c to f5da3 on other branches (not master branch).

And if you execute the command git log master --oneline, it will list the commits only on master branch, and the result will be same as xcode shows.

Upvotes: 4

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