From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Git {log,diff} against tracked branch? Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:26:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20090318182603.GM8940@machine.or.cz> References: <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Gruenbacher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 18 19:27:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lk0UO-0004ZS-E8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:27:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758367AbZCRS0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758182AbZCRS0J (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:09 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:57400 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756653AbZCRS0H (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:07 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 6B8C01E4C030; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:26:03 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > I often want to see what the differences are between a local branch and the > branch it tracks (if it tracks a branch). I currently do something like "git > log master..origin/master". This is a lot of unnecessary typing though > compared to something like "git log -t master", or even "git log -t" when on > the master branch. sorry, I think Git can't do anything like this either. :-( However, I think something like this would be useful and probably easy to do? Maybe someone on the list will get inspired to implement a special refspec character to represent the "tracked branch" relationship, so e.g. %master would expand to %origin/master. Then you should be able to do something like: git log %.. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr