From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:45:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20141115214521.GC3378@acm.acm> References: <20141114120604.GA3859@acm.acm> <87389mkjwo.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <20141114141434.GM3565@embecosm.com> <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <87h9y1mwxl.fsf@igel.home> <20141114200957.GC3168@acm.acm> <87y4rc5k2u.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416087992 18833 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 21:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Andrew Burgess , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Florian Weimer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 22:46:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XplAo-0006DH-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XplAo-0000et-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XplAT-0000Uk-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XplAL-00055c-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:61409 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XplAL-00055O-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 64004 invoked by uid 3782); 15 Nov 2014 21:45:56 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951BEFE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.190.254]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:45:55 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4475 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Nov 2014 21:45:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4rc5k2u.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177257 Archived-At: Hello, Florian. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 08:40:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Alan Mackenzie: > > This doesn't work very well. It prints out the information for the first > > commit that is displayed, but no more. This feels like a git bug. > Git does not record the branch on which a commit was made. But as I understand it, the head of each branch is identified by a pointer, and all previous commits are in a chain starting at this pointer. So git should know which branch each commit is on. Why can it not display this information? > It's sometimes recorded in merges, but only in the free-text commit > message. For fast-forward merges (without a separate merge commit), > there is no trace that development of certain commits happened on a > separate branch. > gitk can show precedes/follows information for tags, though. > Depending on the project's history, this can be quite useful. (I have > not seen a command line tool which does the same thing.) I'll get gitk working sometime. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).