Subject: Re: how to list commits on branch since last merge

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:48:43 +0100

Jay Soffian venit, vidit, dixit 08.03.2011 10:43:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Jay Soffian <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Michael J Gruber
>> <[email-masked]> 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.

You mean shorter than:

git rev-list --merges -1 $(git merge-base foo bar)

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding "contain".

Michael