Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld for pointing out inconsistent use of branch names in a couple examples. Add a little more example output while I'm at it. At some point actually it might be good for someone to figure out a good example to use consistently throughout the manual and tutorials; it might make them a little easier to read. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 9fc2bba..5fb86f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ Suppose you want to know how many commits you've made on "mybranch" since it diverged from "origin": ------------------------------------------------- -$ git log --pretty=oneline origin..maint | wc -l +$ git log --pretty=oneline origin..mybranch | wc -l ------------------------------------------------- Alternatively you may often see this sort of thing done with the @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ lower-level command gitlink:git-rev-list[1], which just lists the SHA1's of all the given commits: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git rev-list origin..maint | wc -l +$ git rev-list origin..mybranch | wc -l ------------------------------------------------- [[checking-for-equal-branches]] @@ -849,19 +849,23 @@ a07157ac624b2524a059a3414e99f6f44bebc1e7 refs/heads/master 1e87486ae06626c2f31eaa63d26fc0fd646c8af2 refs/heads/tutorial-fixes ------------------------------------------------- -We can get just the branch-head names, and remove "maint", with +We can get just the branch-head names, and remove "master", with the help of the standard utilities cut and grep: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v '^refs/heads/maint' +$ git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v '^refs/heads/master' +refs/heads/core-tutorial +refs/heads/maint +refs/heads/tutorial-2 +refs/heads/tutorial-fixes ------------------------------------------------- -And then we can ask to see all the commits reachable from maint +And then we can ask to see all the commits reachable from master but not from these other heads: ------------------------------------------------- -$ gitk maint --not $( git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | - grep -v '^refs/heads/maint' ) +$ gitk master --not $( git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | + grep -v '^refs/heads/master' ) ------------------------------------------------- Obviously endless variations are possible; to see all commits -- 1.5.1.4.19.g69e2 - 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
