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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Yury Polyanskiy <polyanskiy@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not show ORIG_HEAD in git-log --decorate?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:04:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410090441.GA18772@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100410090042.GA13109@atjola.homenet>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:00:42AM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> > I think most people do something like:
> > 
> >   gitk HEAD^..ORIG_HEAD
> > 
> > To see everything in ORIG_HEAD that isn't in HEAD^ (the first parent of
> > HEAD, or what you had just before the pull).
> 
> I guess you meant to say "gitk ORIG_HEAD.." there. ORIG_HEAD is already
> the pre-pull state. So if the merge actually created a merge commit,
> then HEAD^ == ORIG_HEAD, and if it was a fast-forward, then ORIG_HEAD is
> either the same as HEAD^ or one of its ancestors. In either case,
> HEAD^..ORIG_HEAD will be empty.

Urgh, yes. Sorry, I was totally not thinking when I wrote that.

I never use ORIG_HEAD, as I always do a fetch + inspect + merge, rather
than pull. But I can't even figure out what thought process led me to
write what I did above.

Thanks for the correction.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 16:07 Why not show ORIG_HEAD in git-log --decorate? Yury Polyanskiy
2010-04-10  1:29 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10  9:00   ` Björn Steinbrink
2010-04-10  9:04     ` Jeff King [this message]

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