From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:04:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Listing of branch creation time?
Message-ID: <7vd52um8d9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703271759510.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>> You have to look at the latest merge-base, but that tells you the last 
>> time you merged with master, not necessarily the first time.
>
> Well, if you know which branch it is a branch off of, don't use 
> merge-base, just do
>
> 	git log --reverse -1 origin..branch
>
> which should pick up the first commit that is on that branch but haven't 
> been merged back to the original branch.

I suspect you fell into the common trap of confused interaction
between --max-count and --reverse here.  This will show the
latest one commit on the branch that is still not in origin.

Similarly, "git log --reverse -1 master" is _not_ the way to
find the root commit of the project.

> (Personally, if I didn't want the graphical version, I'd likely just do
>
> 	git log origin..branch
>
> and then do '>' in the pager to get to the bottom. That way I can then 
> scroll up and down if I decide I want to get a bigger picture)

What I use myself is git-topic.perl script from the 'todo'
branch.  It essentially is:

	for topic
        do
        	git [short]log --no-merges master..$topic
	done

with frills.