From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:44:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Find successor of common ancestor
Message-ID: <AANLkTiloDCX4SuEDe_BNivv3UkY2TrQU1EAZlZGd1HYs@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100716082937.GA22894@nibiru.local>

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).

You haven't *really* explained what you want to do here, but that
doesn't really effect the answer to your actual question...

> 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