On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:11:16AM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: > Going back to my original picture, I mean commit m: > > o---o---x---o---... foo > \ \ > o---o---m---o---... bar > > merge-base foo bar gives me x; to get m I then need to grep the output > of rev-list --parents for x. Isn't the merge the first commit in bar that is not in foo? IOW: git rev-list foo..bar | tail -n 1 ? I admit it's not particularly elegant, though. And I haven't given enough thought to decide whether that happens to work in your case, or if it is more general. :) -Peff -- 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