Re: git log for a merged branch

[Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tor Arntsen" <tor@spacetec.no>
> To: "Stephen Bash" <bash@genarts.com>
> Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:23:47 AM
> Subject: Re: git log for a merged branch
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:04, Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com> wrote:
>
> > If I want to
> > see the commits (bug fixes) performed on the release branch, how do
> > I do it?
> [..]
> 
> Maybe not exactly what you ask for, but the way I do it is simply to
> use a non-ff merge with additional logging, i.e. git merge --no-ff
> --log <branchname-with-fixes>
> which will give me a merge commit which includes one-liners for each
> of those commits merged into mainline.

That's actually a pretty cool trick.  I will file that one for adoption as we move to a git-centric workflow.

I'm still curious if there's an "easy" way to extract the segment of history that was the release branch because I feel like there may be other uses than just git log... (not that I've nailed them down yet)

Thanks!
Stephen