On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> What are your thoughts on inventing a new syntax A~B = $(git
>> merge-base A B) B which can be used by both range commands like log
>> and non-range commands like diff ? (In other words, why shouldn't log
>> be able to do this?).
>
> The idea for a new syntax to denote a merge base may be an
> interesting one.
Sorry I wasn't clear. A~B = $(git merge-base A B) B to diff and $(git
merge-base A B)..B to log. I don't mind a hybrid command as long as
we document it properly. rev-parse will parse it into B ^${git
merge-base A B) just fine. Implementation: diff should swap the
arguments if the second argument is UNINTERESTING: it already does
this :)
Basically, I want to be able to do git log master~rebase.autostash
(without having to rebase). I'm also considering making the first
argument optional (just git log ~rebase.autostash), and defaulting to
mean [nearest fork point].
What do you think?
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