From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonas Gehring Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Implemented return value for rev-list --quiet Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:31:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4DB755D2.10303@boolsoft.org> References: <4DB748F5.4050300@boolsoft.org> <7vwrigbor6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 27 01:29:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QErhH-0004gY-EC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:29:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751669Ab1DZX3W (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:29:22 -0400 Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.27]:49686 "EHLO smtprelay04.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822Ab1DZX3W (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:29:22 -0400 Received: from [109.193.12.52] (helo=[192.168.10.4]) by smtprelay04.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1QErh1-0001vL-5l; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:29:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Lanikai/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <7vwrigbor6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 X-Df-Sender: jonas.gehring@boolsoft.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 04/27/2011 01:02 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Given two commits A and X, "rev-list --objects A..X" is a way to make sure > that everything between A and X exists. Thank you for this explanation, this really cleared up the intended usage of --quiet for me. I wanted to use it for ancestry testing of two commits, noticed the hard-coded return value of '0' in cmd_rev_list() and thought that the implementation is probably missing. After some additional digging, I realized that git-merge-base is the right tool for my task. Regards, Jonas