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How do I ask git-show-branch to display a commit range?
For some tasks, I find git show-branch easier to follow than git log. For example, inspecting the history on someone's PR before merging it.
git show-branch master topic stops at the first common ancestor, which is usually not what I want. Usually I want to display the same commits that would have been covered by git log master...topic, but in a show-branch format. Sometimes the two are the same, but not always.
Is there an incantation that will do this?
[Edit]: After experimenting a bit, it looks like I only run into a problem if the tip of one branch is a merge of the other. For example, consider a history like this:
master *---*---A---B---*
\ \
topic a---b---c---*
If I then do git show-branch master topic, it doesn't include a, b, and c, even though those commits are not ancestors of master.
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According to the docs, you could use the --more flag
If you just want to look at some commits past the common ancestor, then you can add the --more flag to it.
From the git-scm docs for git-show-branch,
--more=<n>Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This flag tells the command to go
<n>more common commits beyond that. When<n>is negative, display only the<reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry tree.
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