On Jun 20 2016, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 20 2016, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> What's the best way to find all commits in a branch A that have not been >>> cherry-picked from (or to) another branch B? >>> >>> I think I could format-patch all commits in every branch into separate >>> files, hash the Author and Date of each files, and then compare the two >>> lists. But I'm hoping there's a way to instead have git do the >>> heavy-lifting? >> >> "git cherry" perhaps? > > That seems to work only the "wrong way around". I have a tag > fuse_3_0_start, which is the common ancestor to "master" and > "fuse_2_9_bugfix". I'd like to find all the commits from fuse_3_0_start > to master that have not been cherry-picked into fuse_2_9_bugfix. > > However: > > * "git cherry fuse_3_0_start master release2.9" tells me nothing has > been cherry-picked at all (only lines with +) > > * "git cherry fuse_3_0_start release2.9 master" also tells me nothing > has been cherry picked, but somehow shows a smaller total number of > commits. > > * "git cherry master release2.9 fuse_3_0_start" gives me the commits > from fuse_2_9_bugfix that have not been cherry-picked into master > (which seems to be in contradiction to the two earlier commands). > > > Am I missing something obvious? I meant to add: the repository I'm working with is at https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/. Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- 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