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Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:27:01 +0200

> From: Sergey Organov <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:57:56 +0300
> 
> >     git log -n5 emacs24 master --
> >
> > and this works, but it doesn't say which commit is in which branch.
> > YUCK.
> 
> Because in GIT commits are not on a branch. All commits are arranged into
> DAG, and branch is just a pointer into the DAG. Any given commit is
> either reachable from given branch or not. It's that simple.

You just re-defined "on a branch", that's all.  A commit that's
reachable from a branch is on that branch.  It's that simple.



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