Re: Finding the name of the parent branch?

From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2009, 13:35 UTC
Message-ID: <a2633edd0901300535mf2d9ceemd9e9009e0aa18b40@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0901300516y3d1bf58dmda9c5172586d828@mail.gmail.com>

Santi,

> Maybe if you explain why you want it (a use case) instead of just this
> specific problem...

To know the proper merge base to display all commits done on a specific topic branch.

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>>> Just a counterexample, just rearranging you graph:
>>>
>>>                        o---B
>>>                        /
>>>                   o---2---o---o---o---C
>>>                  /
>>>          ---o---1---o---o---o---A
>>>
>>> From you description: For B I would get C and for C I would get A.
>
> Please, if you quote text do not edit it (the 1 and the 2 in this case).

Well I've just added 1 and 2, nothing changed in the semantic!

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> Yes. Compare your sentence and mine:
>
> For B I want to get A and for C I want to get B.
> For B I would get C and for C I would get A.
>
> So for B you get A while I get C, and the equivalent for C.

Ok, that's expected since you have renamed B to C and C to B.

My tree was:

                        o---o---o---C
                        /
                   o---o---o---B
                  /
          ---o---o---o---o---o---A

Your's was:

                       o---B
                       /
                  o---o---o---o---o---C
                 /
         ---o---o---o---o---o---A

So when I said:

    For B I want to get A and for C I want to get B.

It is equivalent to your (just rename B and C).:

   For B I would get C and for C I would get A.

Frankly I do not see your point... That's maybe the cause of the problem I'm having....

Pascal.

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