Fast way to see log changes between two branches?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Brian de Alwis wrote:
| Hi everybody.
|
| I've been using bzr with feature branches to do development: I keep a
| branch of the trunk that's maintained against a centralized repository,
| from which I make branches for the different features.
|
| When preparing to merge in completed features, I've found myself wanting
| to see the log entries for the changes since the feature branch was
| branched -- a summary of what's gone on.  But I can't find a nice way to
| do it.  The closest I can find is:
|
|     $ bzr log -r ancestor:../trunk..-1
|
| but this shows the log entry for the common ancestor entry.  I want
| everything *since* that common ancestor.
|
| Is there a way? The only workaround I've found (beyond skipping the
| common log message!) is a shell script like:
|
| $ trunkRevNo=`cd $trunk; bzr revno`
| $ bzr log -r $(($trunkRevNo + 1))..-1
|
| but that assumes that the tip of the trunk is unchanged.  It might work
| if 'bzr revno' could take and resolve a given revisionspec for a
| particular branch.
|
| Brian.
|

$ cd branch
$ bzr missing ../trunk

That will only show the mainline commits that haven't been merged, but it sounds
like what you want.

Alternatively you can use:

$ bzr revision-info -r ancestor:../trunk

John
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