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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: Walking children commits?
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:44:45 +0900
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:35:52AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:02:09AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to get all the children commits of a set of commits. To do
> > that, I'm using this:
> > 
> >   git rev-list --topo-order --ancestry-path --boundary <all heads> ^A ^B ...
> > 
> > where A, B, and following are those commits I want the children of. From
> > the gitrevisions documentation, it seems that should get me what I want,
> > but if I build a dag manually (from the output of rev-list --parents)
> > and get all the children of those commits, I get more results than what
> > the command above returns (and that command also gives false positives).
> 
> The false positives are actually boundaries other than A, B, etc. so I'd
> actually need to remove --boundary and add A, B to the result manually.
> That still leaves the missing results, though.

Ah, the missing results are commits that both are part of the set of
commits and are heads...
So all in all --ancestry-path works for my use case, but I need
post-processing.

Mike