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Re: Walking children commits?

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Mar 30, 2015, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID
<20150330233552.GA22637@glandium.org>
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<20150330230209.GA20421@glandium.org>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:02:09AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get all the children commits of a set of commits. To do
> that, I'm using this:
> 
>   git rev-list --topo-order --ancestry-path --boundary <all heads> ^A ^B ...
> 
> where A, B, and following are those commits I want the children of. From
> the gitrevisions documentation, it seems that should get me what I want,
> but if I build a dag manually (from the output of rev-list --parents)
> and get all the children of those commits, I get more results than what
> the command above returns (and that command also gives false positives).

The false positives are actually boundaries other than A, B, etc. so I'd actually need to remove --boundary and add A, B to the result manually. That still leaves the missing results, though.

Mike
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