From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 29838 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2022 03:49:11 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Sep 2022 03:49:11 -0000 Received: from mimir.eigenstate.org ([206.124.132.107]) by 9front; Tue Sep 27 23:47:12 -0400 2022 Received: from abbatoir.myfiosgateway.com (pool-108-41-152-182.nycmny.fios.verizon.net [108.41.152.182]) by mimir.eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d782b6db (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9A537F72E176755FF83FDA6F6B390C28@eigenstate.org> To: 9front@9front.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:47:10 -0400 From: ori@eigenstate.org In-Reply-To: <63338d4a.050a0220.10e9a.6f67@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: shared grid-oriented event-based pipelining frontend Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] git/query: implement range using paint() Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Michael Forney : > 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.