Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] user-manual: Use git branch --merged

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"W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Use 'git branch --merged origin'.  This feature was introduced by
> 049716b (branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary
> commit, 2008-07-08), after the documentation that's being replaced
> moved into the manual with 9e2163ea (user-manual: move
> howto/using-topic-branches into manual, 2007-05-13).
>
> Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/user-manual.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> index 53f73c3..a8f792d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -2267,10 +2267,10 @@ then pulled by Linus, and finally coming back into your local
>  You detect this when the output from:
>  
>  -------------------------------------------------
> -$ git log origin..branchname
> +$ git branch --merged origin
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  
> -is empty.  At this point the branch can be deleted:
> +lists the branch.  At this point the branch can be deleted:

This is making things much less useful.  "branch --merged origin"
will show 47 different branches that you are *not* interested in the
flow of examples in this part of the tutorial.

Also, log origin..branchname allows you to notice a situation where
some but not all of the branch was merged, too.
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