From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:35:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Walking children commits?
Message-ID: <20150330233552.GA22637@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150330230209.GA20421@glandium.org>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:02:09AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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