On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, E R <pc88mxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks - that's very helpful. > > For the second question, is it possible to find the commit that > represents the merge in the master branch? There might not be an actual commit, if the merge was a fast forward. > > i.e. > > git merge-base XXX master > > returns the commit in branch XXX that got merged into master. I'd like > to also find the commit that represents the merge in master. If one exists, I think this might do what you want: git log --pretty=oneline master --not $(git merge-base XXX master) | tail -1 > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nathan W. Panike > <nathan.panike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, E R <pc88mxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to generate the following report from git: >>> >>> for each branch: >>> - info about the latest commit on that branch (date and time, message, etc.) >> >> Depending on what you want to do---from a bash shell, you could do: >> >> for i in $(git branch -a | cut -b3-); do echo $i; git show -s $i; echo; done >> >>> - info about the last time it was merged into master >> >> for i in $(git branch -a | cut -b3-); do echo $i; git show -s $(git >> merge-base $i master); echo; done >>> >>> What commands can I run to figure this out? I think I can figure out >>> the first one - it's the second one I'm having trouble with. >>> >>> And if it would easier to do it from the C API (or something like the >>> perl Git::PurePerl module) I'd be interested in knowing that, too. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> ER >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html