Re: How to find commits unique to a branch
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-22 18:20:37
Nikolaus Rath [off-list ref] writes:
On Jun 21 2016, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
I find that the first sentence of the description is fuzzy ("Determine whether" would imply that you would get "Yes/No" but what we want is "here are the commits that do not have counterpart in 2fix"),...This works, thanks! I don't quite understand why though. I started by saying that I want to know which commits in master are have been cherry picked after 3start was branched to 2fix, so <limit>..<head> must be 3start..2fix, which only leaves "master" as <upstream>. What's wrong with that thought?
The only thing that is wrong in that is it does not match what happens, but that is not the fault of the "thought"; as I said, I think the description is fuzzy and has room for improvement to avoid being read in such a way that leads to a wrong conclusion.