From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] merge-base: add --merge-child option
Message-ID: <7vwqr3u9c5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <518FCDDE.9040707@bracey.fi>

Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:

> 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.