On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jeff King<peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:12:50PM +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote: >> After all, if I *really* care about the prior state of the remote, I >> can just make it a remote branch. And if (as often happens) I just > > Do you mean "local branch" here? Yes. >> want to know what's new in that ref since last time I merged, it's >> simply >> >> git log master..origin/master >> >> This works even if master has extra commits vs. origin/master, since >> the double-dot invokes git-merge-base. > > Well, ".." doesn't use git-merge-base. But yes, I actually do this, > except I do: > > gitk master...origin/master Sorry, not my day for accuracy, it seems. I use both, and I should have remembered that the triple-dot is the one that worries about the merge-base. Have fun, Avery -- 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