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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding a branch point in git
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:45:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120530214522.GA3237@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3pKo-Dzg6bTKNmjFsLSYvUfhXfk9NQJxOBTvFekqgrFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:52:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > --X--A--B--C--D----E--F (master)
> >     |\           /  /
> >     | \         /  /
> >      \ G--H----I  /  (branch X)
> >       \       /  /
> >        K--L--M--O  (branch Y)
> >
> > The only merge between master and X is F, but its merge base is M. We
> > missed the earlier merge to master because it actually happened across
> > two different commits.
> 
> I assume you mean the merge between master and Y.

Oops, yes.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-30 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-27 12:37 Finding a branch point in git Felipe Contreras
2012-05-28  6:20 ` Jeff King
2012-05-28 12:36   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-28 19:06     ` Jeff King
2012-05-30 17:07       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-30 21:54         ` Jeff King
2012-05-31 15:27           ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-31 16:10             ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-31 20:37             ` PJ Weisberg
2012-06-01  9:15               ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-31 15:37           ` Martin Langhoff
2012-05-30 16:52   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-30 21:45     ` Jeff King [this message]

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