----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tor Arntsen" <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Stephen Bash" <bash@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:23:47 AM > Subject: Re: git log for a merged branch > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:04, Stephen Bash <bash@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If I want to > > see the commits (bug fixes) performed on the release branch, how do > > I do it? > [..] > > Maybe not exactly what you ask for, but the way I do it is simply to > use a non-ff merge with additional logging, i.e. git merge --no-ff > --log <branchname-with-fixes> > which will give me a merge commit which includes one-liners for each > of those commits merged into mainline. That's actually a pretty cool trick. I will file that one for adoption as we move to a git-centric workflow. I'm still curious if there's an "easy" way to extract the segment of history that was the release branch because I feel like there may be other uses than just git log... (not that I've nailed them down yet) Thanks! Stephen -- 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