From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] merge-base: add --merge-child option Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:22:50 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwqr3u9c5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <518FB8DE.7070004@bracey.fi> <20130512162823.GK2299@serenity.lan> <20130512163317.GL2299@serenity.lan> <518FCDDE.9040707@bracey.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John Keeping , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Jonathan Nieder , Michael J Gruber To: Kevin Bracey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 13 00:22:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UbefR-0003vr-4R for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 00:22:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751906Ab3ELWWx (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 18:22:53 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:59363 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751576Ab3ELWWw (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 18:22:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD061DFE8; Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=85d2UhTIJQtxM+42hUTEHrcQRKQ=; b=jL/Ygt YswQSFMcngqYAANCQ9tv6sTU8HmmaDKKFd3+bipKZrztMD0Uvn6xIgbdze7h/LV6 sXY9n//azpV11TqPqL7RG13XULgZYc1bfwXjCfee+aICHcyKrw0qnhkY+EdVDfhL ca4jFiMFU11jkPPw1bbpmkRZd+C4I/roFJRbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=AJs9AqMuWOJlt/b3z2K2Wa+29EYsRnc/ Jt1fHL8RNyBJeLEUDk1Wo0U1q6v6WW53TG7gA8+FlTlqFgdeN35FNTIvfpd5SkKe iartHds65a2dSc4zlHfeseXb5ghRrisDzpNYaPcHKKXVFBUrsDhDyLHj0Uo7RIC4 zTLcoCkp+ck= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0991DFE7; Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [50.152.208.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 91AEE1DFE6; Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <518FCDDE.9040707@bracey.fi> (Kevin Bracey's message of "Sun, 12 May 2013 20:14:06 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7BF808E6-BB52-11E2-A98F-E56BAAC0D69C-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kevin Bracey writes: > Although I realised after > sending my mail you could also use > > git log --ancestry-path --left-right E...F --not $(git merge-base > --all E F) > > which looks like we're having to repeat ourselves because it's not > paying attention... You are half wrong; "--left-right" is about "do we show the /= marker in the output?", so it is true that it does not make sense without "...", but the reverse is not true: A...B does not and should not imply --left-right.