Re: Walking children commits?
- From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date
- Mar 30, 2015, 23:44 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20150330234445.GA23391@glandium.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <20150330233552.GA22637@glandium.org>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:35:52AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
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> 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.
Ah, the missing results are commits that both are part of the set of commits and are heads... So all in all --ancestry-path works for my use case, but I need post-processing.
Mike