listing changesets on a branch

listing changesets on a branch

[Tajti Ákos]

Dear List,

I'd like to list the changesets between two commit ids, but only those, 
that were committed on a specific branch. I tried to use the following 
command:

git log --branches=*/master rev1..rev2

But the result is not what I expected: i see sommits that were made on 
an other branch and were not merged to master. Could you please tell me 
what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Ákos Tajti

Re: listing changesets on a branch

[Jakub Narebski]

Tajti Ákos <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:

> I'd like to list the changesets between two commit ids, but only
> those, that were committed on a specific branch. I tried to use the
> following command:
> 
> git log --branches=*/master rev1..rev2
> 
> But the result is not what I expected: i see sommits that were made on
> an other branch and were not merged to master. Could you please tell
> me what I am doing wrong?

In Git there isn't such thing like "commits made on a specific branch".
Branches are simply references to DAG, and "on branch" means commits
reachable from branch tip (branch head).

Anyway, try `--ancestry-path` option (in git-log(1) manpage), which
make Git show only those commits that are on line joining rev2 to
rev1.  I guess it is what you really want.

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narębski