Question

I am missing clean mergeinformation in git:

• What commits (list including comments) have been merged by a commit
• What commits have NOT been merged by a commit.

How can I get those? In SVN there was very useful concept of mergeinfo.

Answer 1

I’m not sure exactly what situation you’re trying to address.

• You can list the commits from branch foo that are not yet merged into branch bar using:

  git log bar..foo
  

• You can list all commits from any local branch that aren’t merged into branch bar using:

  git log --branches --not bar
  

• If you want remote branches, use --remotes. See git-rev-list(1) for more variations.

• Perhaps this is what you want for seeing what commits were new since the common ancestor of both parents of a merge, although I don’t think the question is clear:

  git log <merge-commit>^1...<merge-commit>^2
  

• You can see which commits are cherry-picked between two branches using git cherry.