Re: git log question

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:57:59 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:00:54 +0100
>> 
>> I thought if I call `git log <commit> -1' on the current branch, it will
>> only show <commit> if it is in the current branch, but I just discovered
>> this is not so: I called it with master current and <commit> being one I
>> knew was only in emacs-26, but nevertheless it showed that commit.
>
> Isn't that because we merge from emacs-26 to master, and that commit
> was merged as part of that?

No, this was prior to that commit being merged to master (cf. my example
of a commit existing only on master but being shown when invoking `git
log <commit>' on emacs-26).

Steve Berman