From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:49:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop git-rev-list at sha1 match
Message-ID: <1115851742.22180.154.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <20050511221719.GH22686@pasky.ji.cz>

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:17 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> But the very fact that you want this makes me *quite* nervous - I think
> this is bad thing to do. The problem is, for something like
> it won't show the full merge. 
> 
> I think you mean it to show everything going into the tree since foo -
> that would include the whole branch you cut off now.

>From a SCM POV it does not matter.

Rn   o
     | \
Rn-1 o  |
     |  o Mn
     |  o Mn-1
Rn-2 o /
Rn-3 o

If you are in Repository R, then tracking Rn to Rn-123 gives you a
linear result depending on the stop point you chose.
Rn
---- Stop = Rn-1
Rn-1
---- Stop = Rn-2
Rn-2
---- Stop = Rn-3

The diff between Rn and Rn-1 contains always the changes merged from M

> Thomas, what are you going to use it for?

Displaing the the changes between commit shaX and shaY :)

tglx