Re: Question about "git log --cherry"

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2013, 05:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC9WiBjykt5qj2sRtTK=VHp0B5x===7oqVP7VRC6BOdCMTn9yg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130926202153.GC27238@serenity.lan>

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:21 PM, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> I'm trying to use "git log --cherry ..." in order to display new, kept
>> and removed commits between two branches A and B.
>>
>> So commits which are only in B are considered new and should be marked
>> with '+'. Commits which are in both branches are marked with '=' but
>> only commit in branch B are shown. Eventually commits which are in A
>> but not in B anymore should be marked with '-'.
>>
>> So far I found this solution:
>>
>>   $ git log --cherry-mark --right-only A...B
>>   $ git log --cherry-pick  --left-only   A...B
>>
>> but I have to call twice git-log. This can be annoying since depending
>> on A and B, calling git-log can take time.
>>
>> Is there another option that I'm missing which would do the job but
>> with only one call to git-log ?
>
> Does this do what you want?
>
>     git log --cherry-mark --left-right A...B |
>     sed -e '/^commit / {
>         y/<>/-+/
>     }'

Nope because --left-right shows common commits (with '=' mark) that belong to A *and* B, and I'd like to have only the ones in B.

Thanks

-- 
Francis