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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to list commits on branch since last merge
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:08:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r5ahqvjs.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110308171251.GA1823@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:12:51 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:11:16AM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> Going back to my original picture, I mean commit m:
>> 
>>   o---o---x---o---...    foo
>>    \       \
>>     o---o---m---o---...  bar
      b1
>> 
>> merge-base foo bar gives me x; to get m I then need to grep the output
>> of rev-list --parents for x.
>
> Isn't the merge the first commit in bar that is not in foo? IOW:
>
>   git rev-list foo..bar | tail -n 1

That would show the commit marked b1 above, wouldn't it?  ^foo cuts only
x and its parents, but not the other parent of m.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08  7:24 how to list commits on branch since last merge Jay Soffian
2011-03-08  8:48 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  9:35   ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-08  9:39     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  9:43     ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-08  9:48       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 10:11         ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-08 10:25           ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 17:12           ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 17:39             ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-08 18:05               ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 19:08             ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-03-08 21:03               ` Jeff King

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