Re: How to find commits unique to a branch

On Jun 20 2016, Nikolaus Rath [off-list ref] wrote:

On Jun 20 2016, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Nikolaus Rath [off-list ref] writes:

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What's the best way to find all commits in a branch A that have not been
cherry-picked from (or to) another branch B?

I think I could format-patch all commits in every branch into separate
files, hash the Author and Date of each files, and then compare the two
lists. But I'm hoping there's a way to instead have git do the
heavy-lifting?

"git cherry" perhaps?

That seems to work only the "wrong way around". I have a tag
fuse_3_0_start, which is the common ancestor to "master" and
"fuse_2_9_bugfix". I'd like to find all the commits from fuse_3_0_start
to master that have not been cherry-picked into fuse_2_9_bugfix.

However:

* "git cherry fuse_3_0_start master release2.9" tells me nothing has
  been cherry-picked at all (only lines with +)

* "git cherry fuse_3_0_start release2.9 master" also tells me nothing
  has been cherry picked, but somehow shows a smaller total number of
  commits.

* "git cherry master release2.9 fuse_3_0_start" gives me the commits
  from fuse_2_9_bugfix that have not been cherry-picked into master
  (which seems to be in contradiction to the two earlier commands).


Am I missing something obvious?

I meant to add: the repository I'm working with is at
https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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