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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to list commits on branch since last merge
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 04:43:26 -0500
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Have you tried:
>>
>> git rev-list --ancestry-path --left-right foo...bar
>>
>> If the ">" commits are the ones that you want you only have to wait for
>> the "--right-only" option which is cooking in pu. And grep '^>' for now ;)
>
> Ah. The rev-list man page entry on --ancestry-path only talks about
> using it with '..', so I didn't even try it with the symmetric diff
> operator ('...').

And with the clue to use '...', it's easy:

  $ git log --ancestry-path foo...bar ^foo

Still want an easy way for merge-base to report the merge which
contains the merge-base. That will wait for another day.

j.