Subject: Re: Direct ancestors from commit to HEAD

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:26:41 -0700 (PDT)

Gonsolo <[email-masked]> writes:

> Is there a way to see only the direct line of (merge) ancestors from
> patch to HEAD? Something like:
> 
> commit 0cb583fd2862f19ea88b02eb307d11c09e51e2f8
> Merge: 723e9db... a2d1056...
> Author: Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Tue Sep 15 10:01:16 2009 -0700
> 
> 	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
> 
> commit 88512935a24305fea7aecc9ba4d675869e97fc2a
> Merge: 8a62bab... 6b26dea...
> Author: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Fri Aug 14 12:27:19 2009 -0700
> 
> 	Merge branch 'master' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
> 
> commit edd7fc7003f31da48d06e215a93ea966a22c2a03
> Author: Nick Kossifidis <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Mon Aug 10 03:29:02 2009 +0300
> 
>      ath5k: Wakeup fixes
> 
> 
> Here I can see exactly how the ath5k patch came to mainline and since
> when it is there.

I don't know whether --first-parent or --simplify-by-decoration, or
perhaps --dense is what you want (you can also use --graph for better
visualization).

Or use git-show-branch... :-)

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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