Re: Splitting a rev list into 2 sets

[Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to write a script that would parse commits in one of my repo.
> Ideally this script should accept any revision ranges that
> git-rev-list would accept.
>
> This script should consider commits in master differently than the
> ones in others branches.
>
> To get the commit set which can't be reached by master (ie commits
> which are specific to branches other than master) I would do:
>
>   # "$@" is the range spec passed to the script
>   git rev-list "$@" ^master | check_other_commit
>
> But I don't know if it's possible to use a different git-rev-list
> command to get the rest of the commits, ie the ones that are reachable
> by the specified range and master.
>
> One way to do that is to record the first commit set got by the first
> rev-list command and check that the ones returned by "git rev-list $@"
> are not in the record.
>
> But I'm wondering if someone can see another solution more elegant ?

I do not know if I would call this elegant, but I think this
codification of your "One way to do that" is at least small and mostly
readable:

   git rev-list "$@" |grep -v -f <(git rev-list "$@" ^master)

Phil