From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:33:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Reachability lists in git
Message-ID: <xmqqmw7ouu3v.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141118202250.GK6527@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.