Re: Suggestion: make --left-right work with --merge

Junio C Hamano writes:

Yeah, the option list is not maintained well for the last few
years and needs to be updated.

Ah.  OK.  I am currently using git rev-parse in the gitk dev branch to
determine what starting commits git log will use, so that when the
user does an update, I can construct a git log command that will stop
when it gets to any of those previous starting points.  That way the
second git log will only give me new stuff that has been added since
the first git log.

Can you suggest an efficient way to do that that doesn't use git
rev-parse?

Thanks,
Paul.