Re: bug or a general misunderstanding

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 15, 2021, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <YZLMVk3ULURAelQ2@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <468f30fbff6f1fcf708c484c19c287b7@posteo.de>

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:56:00AM +0000, andre_pohlmann@posteo.de wrote:

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> Starting from the relevant branch
> 
> git branch TEST_1
> git checkout TEST_1
> git status

OK, so TEST_1 points at something. We don't know what, but from below, it sounds like the BBV branch.

> then
> 
> git checkout BBV ---- that is the original Branch
> git branch TEST_2 ff2c8952 ---- the commit to check out from

OK, so now TEST_2 is created from ff2c8952. But from the details you've given, we don't know what relationship that has to what was on BBV, or any other commit.

> git checkout TEST_2
> git status

And now it's our HEAD, though I don't think that matters, because...

> git branch --contains 48c8756e ---- the commit with the specific code

...this is asking which branches contain 48c8756e, and doesn't care about HEAD at all.

> the result is that only TEST_1 is shown, not TEST_2.
> It looks to me like the commit is missing.

I can't say if this is a bug or not, without knowing the relationship between 48c8756e and ff2c8952. Have you tried something like:

  git log --oneline --graph 48c8756e...ff2c8952

That should show you whether one is an ancestor of the other.

-Peff