From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:21:20 GMT
Subject: Re: How to find commits unique to a branch
Message-ID: <xmqqtwgnsdr3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <878txz8ubq.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

> What's the best way to find all commits in a branch A that have not been
> cherry-picked from (or to) another branch B?
>
> I think I could format-patch all commits in every branch into separate
> files, hash the Author and Date of each files, and then compare the two
> lists. But I'm hoping there's a way to instead have git do the
> heavy-lifting?

"git cherry" perhaps?