Re: potential improvement to 'git log' with a range

From: Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net>
Date: Jun 23, 2010, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID: <877hlpimkq.fsf@hbox.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201006232002.18921.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> This is fixed with Mercurial 1.6: we now have a query language where
>> 'X..Y' (or 'X::Y') is understood as the set of changesets that are
>> both descendents of X and ancestors of Y.
>
> Thanks. It looks like Mercurial's 'X::Y' is equivalent to Git's
> '--ancestry-path X..Y' (the --ancestry-path option is a new feature).

Yeah, it is equivalent to --ancestry-path. I had no idea Git's range operator worked the way it does :-)

For mercurial-devel: 'X..Y' is a shorthand for '^X Y', which in turn means ancestors of Y, excluding ancestors of X (and excluding X).

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>>> [1]
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial-compare-and-contrast/1599930#1599930
>
> Fixed. Could you please take a look if it is correct, and if there are
> errors, either correct it yourself, or ask me to do it (either via
> comments for this question, or via email)? Thanks in advance.

Yes, its correct now. But would you object if I or someone else took out all those personal opinions and rewrote it from a neutral point of view?

> P.S. Isn't mercurial-devel subscribe only?

No, not really -- you will be whitelisted the first time you post.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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