From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] git/query: implement range using paint()
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:47:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A537F72E176755FF83FDA6F6B390C28@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63338d4a.050a0220.10e9a.6f67@mx.google.com>
Quoth Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>:
> The main motivation for this patch is to make a..b work as expected
> when a is not an ancestor of b. This type of query is very useful
> to answer questions like "what commits do I have that upstream is
> missing?" (origin/front..HEAD) or "what commits does upstream have
> that I'm missing?" (HEAD..origin/front) when your branch has diverged
> from upstream.
>
> Of course, this is possible using the lca feature of ref syntax
> (origin/front HEAD @ .. HEAD), but my investigation revealed that
> there are other cases that are broken, even if a is an ancestor of
> b.
>
lgtm, committed.
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