Re: help with git query
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks - that's very helpful.
>
> For the second question, is it possible to find the commit that
> represents the merge in the master branch?
There might not be an actual commit, if the merge was a fast forward.
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> i.e.
>
> git merge-base XXX master
>
> returns the commit in branch XXX that got merged into master. I'd like
> to also find the commit that represents the merge in master.
If one exists, I think this might do what you want:
git log --pretty=oneline master --not $(git merge-base XXX master) | tail -1
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nathan W. Panike
> <nathan.panike@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to generate the following report from git:
>>>
>>> for each branch:
>>> - info about the latest commit on that branch (date and time, message, etc.)
>>
>> Depending on what you want to do---from a bash shell, you could do:
>>
>> for i in $(git branch -a | cut -b3-); do echo $i; git show -s $i; echo; done
>>
>>> - info about the last time it was merged into master
>>
>> for i in $(git branch -a | cut -b3-); do echo $i; git show -s $(git
>> merge-base $i master); echo; done
>>>
>>> What commands can I run to figure this out? I think I can figure out
>>> the first one - it's the second one I'm having trouble with.
>>>
>>> And if it would easier to do it from the C API (or something like the
>>> perl Git::PurePerl module) I'd be interested in knowing that, too.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> ER
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>
Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>