From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:49:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get next commit that just after a specified commit
Message-ID: <87mun0j9vv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <383c14cc.9289.168e61d39e8.Coremail.wuzhouhui14@mails.ucas.ac.cn>

(Replying to
https://public-inbox.org/git/383c14cc.9289.168e61d39e8.Coremail.wuzhouhui14@mails.ucas.ac.cn/
which curiously I can see there, but not in my inbox (or spam))

Git's data format doesn't make it easy to find "C" given "B" in a commit
chain like A->B->C (also there could be any number of "C"
successors). We need to walk the graph. This shows how to do it:

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html#git_makes_it_difficult_to_find_successors_descendents_of_a_check_in