I want to list all commits that are only part of a specific branch.
With the following, it lists all the commits from the branch, but also from the parent (master)
git log mybranch
The other option I found, was to exclude the commits reachable by master and gives me what I want, BUT I would like to avoid the need of knowing the other branches names.
git log mybranch --not master
I was trying to use git for-each-ref, but it is also listing mybranch so actually it is excluding all:
git log mybranch --not $(git for-each-ref --format '^%(refname:short)' refs/heads/)
Update:
I’m testing a new option that I found a while ago, and till now seems that this could be what I was looking for:
git log --walk-reflogs mybranch
Update (2013-02-13T15:08):
The –walk-reflogs option is good, but I checked that there is an expiration for reflogs (default 90 days, gc.reflogExpire).
I think I found the answer I was looking for:
git log mybranch --not $(git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/heads/ | grep -v "refs/heads/mybranch")
I’m just removing the current branch from list of branches available and using that list to be excluded from the log. This way I only get the commits that are only reached by mybranch.