Re: Getting a list of commits between 2 points without upstream changes

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:33:27PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:

> > I'm not clear on what makes "B" more special than "A" in the graph
> > above. But assuming you know A, don't you just want:
> 
> What makes A special in this case is that commits up to and including
> A have been reviewed, regression tested etc. My use-case is really
> about telling people what has been worked on since the last time the
> code was reviewed.

OK, that makes sense.

> >  git log --no-merges topic ^upstream ^A
> >
> > ? That is, "everything in topic, but not in upstream, nor in the parent
> > of A". Or if you know A and not B, you can use "^B^!" (which means "do
> > not include commits that are in any parent of B").
> 
> Brilliant, that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

Oops, I mis-stated it above. It would be "everything in topic, but not
in upstream, nor in A". Which I think is what you actually want (I had
originally written it as "^B^!", but forgot to change the text when I
switched it to the more-readable "^A").

-Peff