From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:41:55 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get next commit that just after a specified commit
Message-ID: <8f4bc4cf-cfe4-ddf5-cee3-294ebc5fc88c@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ef8bjrqv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On 2/13/2019 4:36 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Their point in comparing it to git is that there's nothing intuitive in
> the UI that exposes this information for the *current* graph, whereas in
> fossil this is a built-in command:
> https://fossil-scm.org/xfer/help/descendants
> 
> Perhaps this information is cheaper to extract these days with the
> commit graph and we could expose it somehow?

I believe the recent changes (collected in commit-reach.c) that improve
'git branch --contains' or 'git tag --contains' are important in helping
this descendants list. There is likely more work to be done to show this
list in a rev-list call.

Thanks,
-Stolee