Re: Shorthand for "$(git merge-base A B)"

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

John Passaro wrote:

quoted

I find myself fairly frequently doing something like "git log $(git
merge-base A B)..C".

Hm.  Can you tell me more about the workflow / higher-level operation
where you do this?

Yes indeed, that would be interesting to learn.  I can think of
reasons why "git log ^A ^B C" may be useful, but I do not think of a
case in which "git log --not $(git merge-base A B) --not C" [*1*]
would become useful.

[Footnote]

*1* As there can be more than one merge-base between A and B, the
 right way to write what John wanted to write is to do the above.
 A single "--not" says "until you see another --not, take all the
 positive one from the command line as negative and vice versa".
 You can also write it as "git log C --not $(git merge-base A B)".