Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Ofcourse, I now see that this is probably useless, and .. fits my bill.
>
> Would you find it potentially useful?
I dunno. The description you gave was insufficient for me to answer
that question.
The part of your message that outlines the scenario you thought A~B
might help you was read by me like the following.
> pu is based on master~10. rebase.autostash is based on
> master~5 and master~3 merges in pu.
So which one is 'pu' based on? master~10, or master~3? You cannot
have both.
> I merge pu into rebase.autostash while working.
So from pu the top two commit on 'master' are missing, but your
branch was forked way before that from 'master', so these two do not
concern you.
> Now, master..rebase.autostash will exclude commits reachable
> from master (and therefore pu),
Whoa. Earlier you said 'pu' is based on master~10, but changed your
mind to say master~3 is in 'pu', and now you mean the tip of
'master' is also in 'pu'? What is going on?
Can you draw a picture to illustrate the topology you are trying to
describe, like I did in a few message upthread? E.g.
---o---*---a---a---a---a---A (master)
\ \
b---Y---X---B (topic)
/
shows a topic B that forked from master and merged from irrelevant
branch at Y and merged from master at X [*1*].
In the above sample topology, even if you pulled irrelevant (for the
purpose of completing your topic) commits at X from 'master',
neither "log A..B" or "log $(merge-base A B)..B" (aka "log A~B")
would exclude any of your commit that is not yet in the 'master', so
I do not think there is anything you gain by using A~B over A..B.
If you pulled something unrelated to your topic that is not in
'master', both "log A..B" and "log A~B" would show these unrelated
changes, so again I do not see how A~B would help you over A..B,
either.
Perhaps in a particular topology you have in mind, it might make a
difference, but I cannot read what that topology is from your
description.
[Footnote]
*1* I do not think this particular topology is what you have in
mind. It is meant to demonstrate one way to illustrate the
history to help other people understand the example you are
trying to give.
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