From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:15:13 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Giqoi-00089J-QC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:14:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161767AbWKKLO2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:14:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161779AbWKKLO2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:14:28 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43653 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161767AbWKKLO1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:14:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GiqoW-00086y-G8 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:14:20 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:14:20 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:14:20 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > Hi, > I want to create "git-amend-commit" to be able to amend commits before > HEAD. So I need to check whether the commit I'm going to amend is > ascendent of HEAD. Is there any way to check that? You can only amend topmost commit in any branch. Anything else would be rewriting history, starting from amended commit upwards in lineage (parentage). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git