Re: How to find commits unique to a branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2016, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh9clm6fl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87mvmdgowj.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

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> On Jun 21 2016, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I find that the first sentence of the description is fuzzy
>> ("Determine whether" would imply that you would get "Yes/No" but
>> what we want is "here are the commits that do not have counterpart
>> in 2fix"),...
>
> This works, thanks! I don't quite understand why though. I started by
> saying that I want to know which commits in master are have been cherry
> picked after 3start was branched to 2fix, so <limit>..<head> must be
> 3start..2fix, which only leaves "master" as <upstream>.  What's wrong
> with that thought?

The only thing that is wrong in that is it does not match what happens, but that is not the fault of the "thought"; as I said, I think the description is fuzzy and has room for improvement to avoid being read in such a way that leads to a wrong conclusion.