Re: [TopGit PATCH 6/6] tg-log: short cut to git log

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20101004064544.GH28679@pengutronix.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Kwx5avY7xRdWLS931zK2fi7cj5Q8u3++bqRO+@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:40:22AM +0200, Per Cederqvist wrote:

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> Using --first-parent to get only the interesting commits only works reliably
> when you only work locally. If you collaborate and you and your partner both
> make a commit before you push to a central server you will have to make a
> merge, where both parents are interesting.
> 
> I wish that git remembered which branch a commit was initially made on. That
> would make "tg log" easy to implement correctly. But since git doesn't, I
> don't think it is possible to implement it properly.
> 
> At least, a warning should be added to the README.

Oh right, I missed that, when looking over the patch. Maybe doing something like:

	git log $name ^base(name) $(for d in dep(name); do echo ^$d)

would work?

Thanks Uwe

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