@ -931,12 +931,13 @@ Another useful tool, especially if you do not always work in X-Window
@@ -931,12 +931,13 @@ Another useful tool, especially if you do not always work in X-Window
The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches
@ -954,10 +955,22 @@ because `mybranch` has not been merged to incorporate these
@@ -954,10 +955,22 @@ because `mybranch` has not been merged to incorporate these
commits from the master branch. The string inside brackets
before the commit log message is a short name you can use to
name the commit. In the above example, 'master' and 'mybranch'
are branch heads. 'master~1' is the first parent of 'master'
are branch heads. 'master^' is the first parent of 'master'
branch head. Please see 'git-rev-parse' documentation if you
see more complex cases.
[NOTE]
Without the '--more=1' option, 'git-show-branch' would not output the
'[master^]' commit, as '[mybranch]' commit is a common ancestor of
both 'master' and 'mybranch' tips. Please see 'git-show-branch'
documentation for details.
[NOTE]
If there were more commits on the 'master' branch after the merge, the
merge commit itself would not be shown by 'git-show-branch' by
default. You would need to provide '--sparse' option to make the
merge commit visible in this case.
Now, let's pretend you are the one who did all the work in
`mybranch`, and the fruit of your hard work has finally been merged
to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run