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From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to find commits unique to a branch
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:21:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh1z78fr.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtwgnsdr3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:21:20 -0700")

On Jun 20 2016, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath•org> writes:
>
>> What's the best way to find all commits in a branch A that have not been
>> cherry-picked from (or to) another branch B?
>>
>> I think I could format-patch all commits in every branch into separate
>> files, hash the Author and Date of each files, and then compare the two
>> lists. But I'm hoping there's a way to instead have git do the
>> heavy-lifting?
>
> "git cherry" perhaps?

That seems to work only the "wrong way around". I have a tag
fuse_3_0_start, which is the common ancestor to "master" and
"fuse_2_9_bugfix". I'd like to find all the commits from fuse_3_0_start
to master that have not been cherry-picked into fuse_2_9_bugfix.

However:

* "git cherry fuse_3_0_start master release2.9" tells me nothing has
  been cherry-picked at all (only lines with +)

* "git cherry fuse_3_0_start release2.9 master" also tells me nothing
  has been cherry picked, but somehow shows a smaller total number of
  commits.

* "git cherry master release2.9 fuse_3_0_start" gives me the commits
  from fuse_2_9_bugfix that have not been cherry-picked into master
  (which seems to be in contradiction to the two earlier commands).


Am I missing something obvious?

Best,
-Nikolaus

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-20 20:43 How to find commits unique to a branch Nikolaus Rath
2016-06-20 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-20 23:21   ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2016-06-21  8:28     ` Michael J Gruber
2016-06-22 16:38       ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-06-21 18:04     ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-06-21 18:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-22 16:38         ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-06-22 18:20           ` Junio C Hamano

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