From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:08:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] revision: new rev^-n shorthand for rev^n..rev
Message-ID: <xmqqy42dnrl8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160927083249.31869-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> writes:

> "git log rev^..rev" is commonly used to show all work done on and merged
> from a side branch. This patch introduces a shorthand "rev^-" for this
> and additionally allows "rev^-$n" to mean "reachable from rev, excluding
> what is reachable from the nth parent of rev". For example, for a
> two-parent merge, you can use rev^-2 to get the set of commits which were
> made to the main branch while the topic branch was prepared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

Very nicely done.  Thanks for a pleasant read.

Will queue.