From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Ross Yeager <ross@skydio.com>, Abraham Bachrach <abe@skydio.com>,
Brian Kubisiak <brian.kubisiak@skydio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-list: add --exclude-path-first-parent flag
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:09:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <607a5f701977c_18dc520893@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKO5Cutas2BM_CTHTJs_O9NSp2Vyn-bK0jV0K758eq5M6-Oag@mail.gmail.com>
Jerry Zhang wrote:
> My motivation is to find the point at which a release branch forked off from
> a main branch, even though the release branch could have been merged
> into the main branch multiple times since it was forked off.
As far as I'm aware this is precisely the only advantage of Mercurial
over Git.
Last time I checked the only way to actually find out the fork point
considering multiple corner cases was to directly store it.
Perhaps --exclude-path-first-parent would be a good approximation.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-17 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-17 0:15 [PATCH] git-rev-list: add --exclude-path-first-parent flag Jerry Zhang
2021-04-17 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-17 1:07 ` Jerry Zhang
2021-04-17 4:09 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-04-17 7:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-21 0:16 ` Jerry Zhang
2021-04-21 0:48 ` [PATCH V2] git-rev-list: add --first-parent-not flag Jerry Zhang
2021-07-28 3:20 ` [PATCH V3] " Jerry Zhang
2021-12-11 2:13 ` Jerry Zhang
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