From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:22:11 GMT
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803211618150.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780803211303r1a247739na79e78c609565010@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  "git show-branch" has logic very close to what we need here: if you
> >  give it the names of your current branch and its parent, it'll show
> >  you just the changes on both branches since the branchpoint.  But I
> >  don't really want to know about additional changes on the parent, only
> >  on the branch I'm working with, and I often prefer the output to be in
> >  git-log's (very flexible) format instead of git-show-branch.
> 
> I believe that
> 
>    git log parent-branch..local-branch
> 
> should give you exactly what you want, i.e. all changes on your local
> branch since it was copied from the parent branch.

Then you need to remember what the parent branch was. But:

  git log local-branch ^maybe-parent-1 ^maybe-parent-2 ...

should give you what you want.

	-Daniel
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