From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop git-rev-list at sha1 match Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:49:02 +0000 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115851742.22180.154.camel@tglx> References: <1115839456.22180.79.camel@tglx> <7vy8alr0mz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1115843429.22180.90.camel@tglx> <7vis1pqvi4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050511221719.GH22686@pasky.ji.cz> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 00:41:32 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVzsz-0002Qh-8V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 00:41:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261297AbVEKWsc (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261291AbVEKWsc (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:48:32 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:131 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261297AbVEKWsL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:48:11 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47B065C003; Thu, 12 May 2005 00:48:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tglx.tec.linutronix.de (tglx.tec.linutronix.de [192.168.0.68]) by mail.tec.linutronix.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C587282A1; Thu, 12 May 2005 00:48:11 +0200 (CEST) To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050511221719.GH22686@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:17 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > But the very fact that you want this makes me *quite* nervous - I think > this is bad thing to do. The problem is, for something like > it won't show the full merge. > > I think you mean it to show everything going into the tree since foo - > that would include the whole branch you cut off now. >>From a SCM POV it does not matter. Rn o | \ Rn-1 o | | o Mn | o Mn-1 Rn-2 o / Rn-3 o If you are in Repository R, then tracking Rn to Rn-123 gives you a linear result depending on the stop point you chose. Rn ---- Stop = Rn-1 Rn-1 ---- Stop = Rn-2 Rn-2 ---- Stop = Rn-3 The diff between Rn and Rn-1 contains always the changes merged from M > Thomas, what are you going to use it for? Displaing the the changes between commit shaX and shaY :) tglx