git-roots-of-hist

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 # $Id$
   4 # Description: lists the commits in the given histories which have no parents
   5 # (i.e., which are roots, initial commits).
   6 #
   7 # I intend to use it to merge the initial commits
   8 # of the indpendent RCS histories of files (produced by parseRCS).
   9 #
  10 # Author: Ivan Zakharyaschev imz at altlinux dot org, March 2009.
  11 # I put it to public domain.
  12
  13
  14 git rev-list --parents "$@" | sed -e /\ /d