From: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] merge-base: add --merge-child option
Message-ID: <5190F806.6040207@bracey.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7vwqr3u9c5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 13/05/2013 01:22, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:
>
>>     git log --ancestry-path --left-right E...F --not $(git merge-base
>> --all E F)
>>
>> which looks like we're having to repeat ourselves because it's not
>> paying attention...
> You are half wrong; "--left-right" is about "do we show the </>/=
> marker in the output?", so it is true that it does not make sense
> without "...", but the reverse is not true: A...B does not and
> should not imply --left-right.
>
The repetition I meant is that by the definition of ancestry-path, the 
above would seem to be equivalent to

   git log --ancestry-path --left-right E F --not $(git merge-base --all E F) $(git merge-base --all E F)

Anyway, revised separated-out version of the patch follows.

Kevin