From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch] Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:15:33 +0000 Message-ID: <455086F5.7070205@shadowen.org> References: <454EAEDB.8020909@gmail.com> <7vk629f6is.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <454F31D7.1030202@gmail.com> <45503553.3020605@gmail.com> <455055DD.2090903@shadowen.org> <4550772B.1040308@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060927) In-Reply-To: <4550772B.1040308@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public-key Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhQnp-0004cx-Tz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:15:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932106AbWKGNPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932607AbWKGNPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:15:42 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:44046 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932106AbWKGNPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:15:42 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by hellhawk.shadowen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GhQn2-0000EH-DF; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:14:57 +0000 To: Liu Yubao Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Liu Yubao wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: >> >> One thing to remember, when you merge the destination into which you >> merge will be HEAD^1, so by just following that you can get junio's view >> of his branch as he made it. >> >> This is doesn't terminate properly, sucks the performance of your >> machine and generally should be erased rather than run; but you get the >> idea: >> >> let n=0 >> while git-show --pretty=one -s "next~$n" >> do >> let "n=$n+1" >> done | less >> >> -apw >> > This is not a right way to view a branch track in git, see Junio's > explanation > about this from http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=116279354214757&w=2 Well in fact that message tells us more why a branch centric view is likely not useful. This output is still the majority of the time the view from the branch integrators point of view. If that is something you care about, I am not sure it is something I care about.