Re: Listing of branch creation time?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

You have to look at the latest merge-base, but that tells you the last 
time you merged with master, not necessarily the first time.

Well, if you know which branch it is a branch off of, don't use 
merge-base, just do

	git log --reverse -1 origin..branch

which should pick up the first commit that is on that branch but haven't 
been merged back to the original branch.

I suspect you fell into the common trap of confused interaction
between --max-count and --reverse here.  This will show the
latest one commit on the branch that is still not in origin.

Similarly, "git log --reverse -1 master" is _not_ the way to
find the root commit of the project.

(Personally, if I didn't want the graphical version, I'd likely just do

	git log origin..branch

and then do '>' in the pager to get to the bottom. That way I can then 
scroll up and down if I decide I want to get a bigger picture)

What I use myself is git-topic.perl script from the 'todo'
branch.  It essentially is:

	for topic
        do
        	git [short]log --no-merges master..$topic
	done

with frills.