Re: How do I show only log messages for commits on a specific branch?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Elijah Newren [off-list ref] wrote:

  git log new@{30.years.ago}..new
(You'll get a warning that 'new' hasn't existed for 30 years but it
doesn't hurt anything)

That's the same as "git log new", if I'm not mistaken.

What Stefan wants to do is to let git log show the commits which are
only in the "new" branch, but I don't think there is an out-of-the-box
solution for that.

One solution I can think of is to iterate over each ref using "git
for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' 'refs/heads/*'", then run "git
merge-base $i new", run git rev-list $mb..new|wc -l and then you could
decide what is the first commit that does not belong to any other
branch. But that's just an idea, I don't have the motivation to script
it properly.