From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reachability lists in git
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:41:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141118194129.GI6527@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411181354320.4374-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Hi,
Alan Stern wrote:
> The "git rev-list A ^B" command lists all the commits that are
> reachable from A but not from B. Is there a comparable command for the
> converse relation, that is, a command to list all the commits that A is
> reachable from but B isn't?
>
> And if there is such a command, can the output be limited to just the
> latest commits? That is, list commit X if and only if A is reachable
> from X, B isn't reachable from X, and B is reachable from each of X's
> children?
Someone else can answer your direct question, but you've got my
curiosity. What is the application?
--ancestry-path is my current favorite tool for walking-forward needs.
Curious,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-18 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 19:03 Reachability lists in git Alan Stern
2014-11-18 19:41 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-11-18 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 20:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 20:29 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 20:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:45 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:16 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 21:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:37 ` Alan Stern
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