From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>, Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:57:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535e1809bf54a_338911e930cb6@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgemFx=2JaC1BaRqCwEV+knC8QftxcZ7K0AsT9azzuyVdA@mail.gmail.com>
Johan Herland wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net> wrote:
> > Whatsmore, tracking down which branch a commit pertains to is still rather
> > difficult using this approach. You can go back through the history and
> > find "Merge branch 'pacman-minigame'", but how do you know which commit was
> > the *start* of that branch, if they are not tagged with the branch name?
>
> Once you have found the merge commit (M), git log M^1..M^2 should list
> all the commits that were made on that branch. The parent of the last
> in that list can be considered the starting point for the branch.
It's not that easy. There has been a lot of discussion in the mailing list and
StackOverflow of ways to do this [1]. The conclusion, at least for me, is that
there's no way to find that out, so it has to be recorded.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198587
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-26 23:56 Recording the current branch on each commit? Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 8:51 ` Robin Rosenberg
2014-04-27 17:27 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 21:40 ` James Denholm
2014-04-27 22:12 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 22:31 ` James Denholm
2014-04-28 8:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 8:49 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 9:10 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 21:58 ` David Lang
2014-04-28 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-27 9:09 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-27 17:38 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 19:33 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-27 20:55 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 23:39 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 6:45 ` Christian Couder
2014-04-28 9:01 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:09 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 9:16 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-29 22:14 ` David Lang
2014-04-28 9:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:17 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:35 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 17:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:39 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 17:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 23:03 ` James Denholm
2014-04-28 23:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-28 23:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-29 0:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 1:29 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 3:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 6:53 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 8:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 9:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 9:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 9:47 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 9:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 10:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 11:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:59 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 11:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 12:25 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 13:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 21:04 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 21:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 22:25 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 23:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 0:22 ` James Denholm
2014-04-30 0:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 1:11 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 21:48 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2014-04-29 8:34 ` Robin Rosenberg
2014-04-28 2:30 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 8:52 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 10:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 10:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 16:38 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 8:57 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-04-28 8:50 ` Felipe Contreras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-28 6:36 Max Kirillov
2014-04-28 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 4:04 ` Max Kirillov
2014-04-28 6:42 Max Kirillov
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