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Re: Reachability lists in git

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2014, 20:33 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> --ancestry-path is my current favorite tool for walking-forward needs.
>>
>> Curious.  I often want to answer this question:
> [...]
>> And my experiments with --ancestry-path has been less than ideal.
>
> Thanks for an example.  I've found it works okay interactively, less
> so for scripted use (so I wish there were something better, though I
> haven't sketched out what that something better would look like).
>
>>     Commit 982ac87 was reported to be faulty.  What topic was it on
>>     and at which point was it merged to 'master'?
>
>  $ git log --graph --ancestry-path 982ac87^..origin/master

Yup, that is what I've been using and was wishing that there would be better alternatives.

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  3. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2014
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  6. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2014
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  8. Jonathan NiederNov 18, 2014
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