Re: Find successor of common ancestor

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>

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Jul 16, 2010, 15:44 UTC

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On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> I've forked some branch A into B, now A and B have evolved
> independently for quite some time into A' and B'. Now I'd like
> to rebase B' along A' history line step by step - first on A+1,
> then A+3, ... until A' (that's what I'd call zip-rebase).

> For this I need to find out the successor commit A (along the A'
> history line). Does anyone know how to do that ?

git rev-list --first-parent --reverse $(git merge-base A B)..A

Have fun,

Avery