I use rev^..rev daily, and I'm surely not the only one. To save typing
(or copy-pasting, if the rev is long -- like a full SHA-1 or branch name)
we can make rev% a shorthand for that.
The existing syntax rev^! seems like it should do the same, but it
doesn't really do the right thing for merge commits (it gives only the
merge itself).
As a natural generalisation, we also accept rev%n where n excludes the
nth parent of rev. It _may_ be more useful to define rev%n for an m-way
merge as:
rev
^rev^1
^rev^[... except n]
^rev^m
so that you can see only the commits that arrived via the nth parent,
but this might be questionable/unintuitive in case any of the parents
that share commits (as you would get fewer commits than expected).
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum
---
Documentation/revisions.txt | 14 +
builtin/rev-parse.c | 38 ++
revision.c | 50 +
3 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
diff --git Documentation/revisions.txt Documentation/revisions.txt
index 4bed5b1..ab2dc2c 100644
--- Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ is a shorthand for 'HEAD..origin' and asks "What did the
origin do since
I forked from them?" Note that '..' would mean 'HEAD..HEAD' which is an
empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD.
+Parent Exclusion Notation
+~
+The '%{}', Parent Exclusion Notation::
+Shorthand for '{caret}..', with '' = 1 if not
+given. This is typically useful for merge commits where you
+can just pass '%' to get all the commits in the branch
+that was merged in merge commit ''.
+
Other {caret} Parent Shorthand Notations
~
Two other shorthands exist, particularly useful for merge commits,
@@ -316,6 +324,10 @@ Revision Range Summary
but exclude those that are reachable from both. When
either or is omitted, it defaults to `HEAD`.
+'%{}', e.g. 'HEAD%, HEAD%2'::
+ Equivalent to '{caret}..', with '' = 1 if not
+ given.
+
'{caret}@', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}@'::
A suffix '{caret}' followed by an at sign is the same as listing
all parents of '' (meaning, include anything reachable from
@@ -339,6 +351,8 @@ spelt out:
CI J F C
B..C = ^B CC
B...C = B ^F C G H D E B C
+ B% = B^..B
+ = B ^B^1 E I J F B
C^@= C^1
= F I J F
B^@= B^1 B^2 B^3
diff --git builtin/rev-parse.c builtin/rev-parse.c
index 76cf05e..f081b81 100644
--- builtin/rev-parse.c
+++ builtin/rev-parse.c
@@ -292,6 +292,42 @@ static int try_difference(const char *arg)
return 0;
}
+static int try_branch(const char *arg)
+{
+ char *percent;
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ unsigned char end[20];
+
+ /*
+* %{} is shorthand for ^.., with = 1 if
+* not given. This is typically used for merge commits where you
+* can just pass % and it will show you all the commits in
+* the branch that was merged (for octopus merges, is the nth
+* branch).
+*/
+
+ if (!(percent = strstr(arg, "%")))
+ return 0;
+
+ *percent = '^';
+ if (!get_sha1_committish(arg, sha1)) {
+ *percent = '%';
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ *percent = '\0';
+ if (!get_sha1_committish(arg, end)) {
+ *percent = '%';
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ show_rev(NORMAL, end, arg);
+ *percent = '^';
+ show_rev(REVERSED, sha1, arg);
+ *percent = '%';
+ return 1;
+}
+
static int try_parent_shorthands(const char *arg)
{
char *dotdot;
@@ -839,6 +875,8 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
/* Not a flag argument */
if (try_difference(arg))
continue;
+ if (try_branch(arg))
+ continue;
if (try_parent_shorthands(arg))
continue;
name = arg;
diff --git revision.c revision.c
index 969b3d1..e20b618 100644
--- revision.c
+++ revision.c
@@ -1519,6 +1519,56 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct
rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi
}
*dotdot = '.';
}
+
+ /*
+* %{} is shorthand for ^.., with = 1 if
+* not given. This is typically used for merge commits where you
+* can just pass % and it will show you all the commits in
+* the branch that was merged (for octopus merges, is the nth
+* branch).
+*/
+ dotdot = strstr(arg, "%");
+ if (dotdot) {
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ unsigned char end[20];
+ struct object *a_obj, *b_obj;
+ unsigned int flags_exclude = flags ^ (
