listing changesets on a branch

Tajti Ákos· Jul 26, 2011, 10:27 UTC · lore

Dear List,

I'd like to list the changesets between two commit ids, but only those, that were committed on a specific branch. I tried to use the following command:

git log --branches=*/master rev1..rev2

But the result is not what I expected: i see sommits that were made on an other branch and were not merged to master. Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance, Ákos Tajti

Jakub Narebski· Jul 26, 2011, 11:46 UTC · re: Tajti Ákos · lore

Re: listing changesets on a branch

Tajti Ákos <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:

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> I'd like to list the changesets between two commit ids, but only
> those, that were committed on a specific branch. I tried to use the
> following command:
> 
> git log --branches=*/master rev1..rev2
> 
> But the result is not what I expected: i see sommits that were made on
> an other branch and were not merged to master. Could you please tell
> me what I am doing wrong?

In Git there isn't such thing like "commits made on a specific branch". Branches are simply references to DAG, and "on branch" means commits reachable from branch tip (branch head).

Anyway, try `--ancestry-path` option (in git-log(1) manpage), which make Git show only those commits that are on line joining rev2 to rev1. I guess it is what you really want.

HTH

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Jakub Narębski