Re: How can I easily verify my diffs are in parent branch?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

So to compare all patch-ID's, you can do

	git cherry cvs-upstream my-branch

adn it should look at all the commits that are in *your* branch but not 
upstream, and report their ID's preceded by a "-" if they are upstream, 
and a "+" if they are not.

You can then look at the "+" commits more closely, to see whether maybe 
they actually did get merged, but got changed/fixed in the process, or 
whether they really are missing.

Funny.

Last night I was thinking about git-cherry, as it is one of the
few commands that have "funny parameter semantics that do not
mesh well with git-log family" (others are format-patch and
rebase).

I think we should be able to use --left-right and ... operator
to express what the above cherry does with something like:

    $ git log --left-right --ignore-common-patch cvs-upstream...my-branch

The --ignore-common-patch option does not exist yet, but the
basic code to implement it should already be accessible from the
log family, as that is what format-patch needs to do.