From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:18:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87mw7syizn.fsf@engster.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416039554 20178 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 08:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 09:19:06 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 1XpYZS-00035Y-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:19:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpYZR-0005zF-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:19:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpYZK-0005z7-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpYZF-0001aL-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:33394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpYZE-0001Zi-Vh; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:18:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=JiXB2/uyA7CCtQ041js7C/QR7bXrxEHZS/x4r5H8Ztw=; b=kuO8XHSCKeKp2w7j17q41upnwP6twa9ogydvqKmcNNEWt/SY8RQmzlOkidFUSonfK0PKIkdFLa/qRKkInwDRRAvN+fj4ZH7/Hl8iGy571PhYlT7qyLhtf1Go2GIio6eo; Original-Received: from ip2504b377.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([37.4.179.119] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XpYZ7-0003cl-US; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:18:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83a93shpe6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:52:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , acm@muc.de, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:177147 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Engster >> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:17:49 +0100 >> Cc: Sergey Organov , emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> >> Alan Mackenzie writes: >> > I want to see all recent commits together, each one annotated with >> > which branch it's on. That's surely not too much to ask for. I want >> > annotation, not filtering. >> >> Try >> >> 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'. > 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. -David