From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: jateeq <jawad_atiq@hotmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting a branch's time of creation
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:32:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wrxakiyj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27933166.post@talk.nabble.com> (jawad_atiq@hotmail.com's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:45:07 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> "jateeq" == jateeq <jawad_atiq@hotmail•com> writes:
jateeq> I am trying to find the time at which a remote branch was created, so
jateeq> that I can use the '--since' option in git log to limit the commits to
jateeq> only ones that were created for that branch (read below to see why I
jateeq> can't use 'git log <branchnname>). So my question: does git remember
jateeq> the time at which a branch was created, and how can it be listed?
You're probably looking for the commit at the common ancestor
of a given branch (which is a point, not a line, remember) and a branch
you're interested in, like maybe "master".
consider something like:
git log $(git merge-base origin/somebranch origin/master)..origin/master
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-17 14:45 Getting a branch's time of creation jateeq
2010-03-17 16:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2010-03-17 17:24 ` jateeq
2010-03-19 20:54 ` Jakub Narebski
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