Re: A note from the maintainer: Follow-up questions (MaintNotes)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:38:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>     a71f64a Merge branch 'pk/import-dirs' into pu
>     ce6cd39 Merge branch 'jh/cvs-helper' into pu
>     ...
>     2178d02 Merge branch 'jc/log-tz' into pu
>     ...
>     927d129 Merge branch 'lt/approxidate' into jch
>     35ada54 Merge branch 'tr/reset-checkout-patch' into jch
>     d82f86c Merge branch 'db/vcs-helper' (early part) into jch
> 
> So if you for example happen to be interested in jc/log-tz topic,
> you would do something like:
> 
>     $ git checkout -b jc/log-tz 2178d02^2
>     $ git log -p master..
> 
> to check out, and view what changes the topic introduces.

Another alternative: Thomas Rast wrote a handy script called
'git-resurrect' which does this for you. It's carried in the contrib/
section right now. I used it just the other day to pull out the
lt/approxidate topic branch, which I then built some follow-up patches
for. Usage is something like:

  # contrib scripts aren't installed by "make install",
  # so put it somewhere in your PATH
  $ cp contrib/git-resurrect.sh ~/bin/git-resurrect

  $ git resurrect -m lt/approxidate
  ** Candidates for lt/approxidate **
  931e8e2 [22 hours ago] fix approxidate parsing of relative months and years
  ** Restoring lt/approxidate to 931e8e2 fix approxidate parsing of relative months and years

-Peff