From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git apologia Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:04:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbmfc99m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114183737.GB3168@acm.acm> <5466517B.50705@porkrind.org> <20141114215404.GD3168@acm.acm> <838ujchods.fsf@gnu.org> <8761egx1k2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83sihkg2ds.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbmgv3b9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83389jdtae.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4rbw19i.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416161081 15431 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 18:04:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 19:04:34 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 1Xq4Bc-0005ST-6W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:04:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq4Bb-0002Ha-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:04:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38488) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq4BT-0002HU-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq4BO-0006Lc-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:48111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq4BO-0006LX-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:04:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF500P008P34Y00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:02:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF50008R8S68C00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:02:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y4rbw19i.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:177333 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:36:41 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Actually, it turns out neither this nor HEAD~n is what I want. What I > > want is to display information about commits N..M where N and M are > > ordinal numbers from the linear "git log" output. And waddaya know? > > HEAD~n etc. seem to _skip_ merge-commits, > > Just like bzr does with its ordinal numbers. No, bzr shows the merge-commit on the mainline, with a normal (i.e. non-dotted) number. Only the commits on the branch from which we merged are skipped by default by "bzr log".