From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 22:41:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Optionally restrict range-diff output to "left" or "right" range only
Message-ID: <xmqqtuqr4frw.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.869.git.1612469275.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> One of my quite common workflows is to see whether an ancient topic branch I
> have lying about has made it into Git. Since my local commit OIDs have
> nothing to do with the OIDs of the corresponding commits in git/git, my only
> way is to fire up git range-diff ...upstream/master, but of course that
> output contains way more commits than I care about.
>
> To help this use case, here is a patch series that teaches git range-diff
> the --left-only and --right-only options in the end, restricting the output
> to those commits and commit pairs that correspond to the commits in the
> first and the second range, respectively.

Makes sense.