Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] merge-base: add --merge-child option
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- May 12, 2013, 22:22 UTC
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- <518FCDDE.9040707@bracey.fi>
Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:
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> Although I realised after > sending my mail you could also use > > 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.