From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:01:21 GMT
Subject: Re: specifying one-side of a merge commit?
Message-ID: <AANLkTimT1w6o41Pu6zoLMRpv2PrtpkJ+6qLTQmQvR89d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mnO8+XM4Bcjneaq+ngUSFesvZ_TYMRyy=f43a@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how do you guys do this?
>
> So far, what I've come up with is this:
>
>  $ git rev-list $MERGE ^$MERGE^ | head -2 | tail -1
>
> I'm sure there's a better way.

$MERGE^2

(^1 means first parent of a commit, ^2 means second parent, etc.
Plain '^' as suffix with no numeral implies ^1).