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: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: <831tp4hmit.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114120604.GA3859@acm.acm> <87389mkjwo.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <20141114141434.GM3565@embecosm.com> <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <87r3x5xtgi.fsf@engster.org> <83a93shpe6.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw7syizn.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416041704 17881 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 08:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 09:54:57 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 1XpZ8D-0007OT-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:54:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpZ8D-0003LT-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:54:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpZ7w-0003L8-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpZ7r-00024V-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:47554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpZ7r-00024K-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF200400O5MZM00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:51:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF200M5FOMHYZ70@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:51:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mw7syizn.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:177153 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: acm@muc.de, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:18:36 +0100 > > >> git log --source emacs-24 master > > > > This spews an error message when invoked in the master branch. Why? > > Does it need the repository to track both branches or something? > > Yes, this was for Alan's case, who has a local tracking branch for > emacs-24. If you don't track it locally, use the remote branch name, > which is 'origin/emacs-24'. OK, thanks. > > What exactly is the semantics of this command when given branch names? > > (The man page doesn't say, AFAICS.) > > It says > > The command takes options applicable to the git rev-list command to > control what is shown and how [...]. > > So 'git help rev-list' will give you details on how this works. A.k.a. "the man page doesn't say", because what the rev-list man page says cannot be related back to the 'log' man page reference. But don't let me start with the quality of the Git documentation.