From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:13:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-branch --with=commit
Message-ID: <7vejf140jd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4732BC6F.7070005@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>>      $ git checkout -b xx/maint-fix-foo
>>      $ git am -3 -s ,xx-maint-fix-foo.patch
>
> Is this comma a hidden feature?

No, just my personal convention to queue e-mails from my mailbox.

>> With this patch, I could do this to find out which topic
>> branches already contain the faulty commit:
>>
>>     $ git branch --with=maint^ | grep /
>>       xx/maint-fix-foo
>
> It'd be helpful if you could construct the example in this commit
> message such that you don't need the "grep /" here; otherwise, the
> reader doesn't know which part of the effect is hidden by the grep.

Yeah, in the example sequence, I think only maint itself and
xx/maint-fix-foo are shown, so there is no need for grep.