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

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2010, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikcCQD9rFDscJNpLaRtX64occrXNHmrB-FdW69b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmxulebr2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Speaking of which, I'd love a switch to "git show $merge_commit" which
>> does "git log $merge_commit^..$merge_commit^2" but I've been too lazy
>> to write it. 9/10 times that I use .., it's in this context. :-)
>
> Doesn't "git show -p --first-parent $merge" work for you?

I don't understand at all. Isn't -p redundant with git show? And how is --first-parent $merge equivalent to $merge_commit^..$merge_commit^2? I literally want a list of all the commits brought in by the merge.

Confusedly yours,

j.