From: Vincent van Ravesteijn Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:11:59 GMT Subject: Re: [git-users] Re: how to get the formated patches from the merge id Message-ID: <4FDB349F.3080507@lyx.org> In-Reply-To: Op 15-6-2012 14:56, lei yang schreef: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> It is still not clear what you want to accomplish. >> >> Your proposal: "git format-patch b724cc1..51bfd29" only gives you the >> commits that were in the branch 51bfd29 that weren't yet in the branch >> b724cc1. This just reflect the commits of one of the branches, but not the >> "work done by the merge commit". >> > > but,git format-patch b724cc1..51bfd29 do the same work as what you > said "git format-patch 0e93b4b3^1..0e93b4b3^2" Yes, that's why I said "If this is _really_ what you want, you can do ...". > and I don't understand what you > said "branch 51bfd29",51bfd29 is not the branch I assumed that the merge commit, merged two branches, but I have no clue how they were named. That's why I refer to the branch as the branch which had 51bfd29 as the last commit before the merge. Vincent