Re: branch management

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Harry Duin <hduin@optionshouse.com> writes:

> Yes, I am aware that branching is different in git than what I have
> used so far with SVN. But apart from the implementation, I have some
> information that I want to gather about work done on a branch. Here
> are a few questions/scenarios that I want to make sure we can
> handle. Remember that our branches are mapped one to one to a Jira
> ticket.
>

First, the syntax to get all commits in a branch 'branch' which was
created ffrom trunk, i.e. branch named 'master' would be

  master..branch

See git-rev-list(1), git-rev-parse(1) and git-log(1) for details
of A..B syntax.

> 1. show all code changes performed on a branch (for code review)

$ git log -p master..branch

> 2. show list of files/directories touched by a branch (useful when
>    looking for past fixes, but are unsure where the fix was done)

If you can use pickaxe search (git log -S...), or git-blame, or just
looking throught "git log ... -- <path>", you can use

$ git rev-list master..branch | 
  git diff-tree --stdin -r --name-only |
  sort -u

(excluding sha1 hashes).

> 
> So far I have not found the exact syntax to get this information,
> but am convinced that git can provide it!

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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