Git log to get commits only for a specific branch

Question

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)

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

#!/bin/bash

all_but()
{
    target="$(git rev-parse $1)"
    echo "$target --not"
    git for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname)" refs/heads | \
    while read entry
    do
        eval "$entry"

        test "$ref" != "$target" && echo "$ref"
    done
}

git log $(all_but $1)

Or, borrowing from the recipe in the Git User's Manual:

#!/bin/bash
git log $1 --not $( git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v "^$1" )