From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7904AC433ED for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 04:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F21E61006 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2021 04:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229631AbhDQEJx (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:09:53 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54354 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229465AbhDQEJu (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:09:50 -0400 Received: from mail-oi1-x233.google.com (mail-oi1-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::233]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0836EC061574 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-oi1-x233.google.com with SMTP id l131so24905037oih.0 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=q52vVpclpu1O1nCVCeIpvyC+1QU7CCbSJpADkQr+t9Q=; b=pNPPU3xsiPzKhhB0W7VdcxI6/cB3B9CcQXaJomUHX/SyD5+OUNhzy2QSoORaVwC29M 9IKdqxT0nJqYA9ObPFTyExSfzsWTU3roUOWN+CN1GvCPmucHczUbGE9ilQQ1nW+5SRlP 8wtzadtyvU5MGahrplSdVV5yznaufJF67EeoyosHV93Jy3N6qFP8XWsG4X1u/SOO8sE6 yJGaRYUqVxH/vFS4ZPgUJ4/xjlqbriVaku8e+eh6Lb2EUHTCDlM1rcUaUjKF1JO27De1 MMPHFWLMFEq9LGfoD8kR6yFC4l9VqvYdDfHa7obZpDNoAqQS/32MPNXeXhGyFkwfZMxA 8nlQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to :references:subject:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=q52vVpclpu1O1nCVCeIpvyC+1QU7CCbSJpADkQr+t9Q=; b=k4QqUw4hFSFp0P8uIKGsxLAEj+OpFgD3pTzGCCqk3MtP39OOgtZqROiNW8dAqw0wCn UxkMwDYlj1kVUuAflKhKsKErhOsy6Fmq6/Ctu4h9xez/PdsmSKEuMVDTxQNFCh5sPPmm fCkUnTiOi0hCX4plcpPv6wQ832Bd0eQ+dmBmVvJ0bmicxpeMlrZlCVC8anl268PotTez hlPnahi1vDpbbuXp3XDl5pqPMLFDBADZ7D/8Bxrl4oFJhhn1L9Y92DJvGVmdwJhalQKN DQgNRM78lJSAcYYIhHRKA883m19BRNumzPlQj1FOSQGCnYmEL0k9IYH6CON+e/VuPeyo CzRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530hBQuvG9tfsvgdhN2uoO+2WkGt7VoOJCpnynC4A0oQ/H9u1x1P 0ZW5I8fz3nRV0RULR6itgGo= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw3MNNKSLKpaBtv63gDlHkGlg/r+2CApRgxD4MjxGqCi0DNXu+VHfPbzZfwQ5njuhc1QDjvFA== X-Received: by 2002:aca:a990:: with SMTP id s138mr9116308oie.80.1618632562400; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2806:2f0:4000:bfd0:a2c5:89ff:fe0c:1151]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 128sm1574166oog.37.2021.04.16.21.09.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:09:20 -0500 From: Felipe Contreras To: Jerry Zhang , Junio C Hamano Cc: Git Mailing List , Ross Yeager , Abraham Bachrach , Brian Kubisiak Message-ID: <607a5f701977c_18dc520893@natae.notmuch> In-Reply-To: References: <20210417001525.19960-1-jerry@skydio.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-list: add --exclude-path-first-parent flag Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jerry Zhang wrote: > My motivation is to find the point at which a release branch forked off from > a main branch, even though the release branch could have been merged > into the main branch multiple times since it was forked off. As far as I'm aware this is precisely the only advantage of Mercurial over Git. Last time I checked the only way to actually find out the fork point considering multiple corner cases was to directly store it. Perhaps --exclude-path-first-parent would be a good approximation. -- Felipe Contreras