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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Question about "git log --cherry"
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:21:53 +0100
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> I'm trying to use "git log --cherry ..." in order to display new, kept
> and removed commits between two branches A and B.
> 
> So commits which are only in B are considered new and should be marked
> with '+'. Commits which are in both branches are marked with '=' but
> only commit in branch B are shown. Eventually commits which are in A
> but not in B anymore should be marked with '-'.
> 
> So far I found this solution:
> 
>   $ git log --cherry-mark --right-only A...B
>   $ git log --cherry-pick  --left-only   A...B
> 
> but I have to call twice git-log. This can be annoying since depending
> on A and B, calling git-log can take time.
> 
> Is there another option that I'm missing which would do the job but
> with only one call to git-log ?

Does this do what you want?

    git log --cherry-mark --left-right A...B |
    sed -e '/^commit / {
        y/<>/-+/
    }'