Can getting the comparison target be configurable?

[orip]

At my work repo there are several active upstream branches, and each local branch is best compared to its most recent merge commit ancestor.

Therefore I have this git alias

❯ git config alias.lastmerge
log --pretty=format:%H --merges -n 1

Changing uniqcommits_cmd and diffbranch_cmd to use $(git lastmerge) instead of $origin_HEAD makes git-recent work flawlessly on this repo.

Can it be made possible to change the default behavior? For example, to check in the githooks dir for an override script and fall back to .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, or some other way to change the default behavior?

[paulirish]

Hmmm. Yeah I get how this works better for you. Sadly in my repos it definitely leads to either no unique commits/diff or it uses some very old accidental merge commit that leads to a absurdly huge diff.

Obviously I'd love to find a default that works for everyone's styles, but I that may be impossible.

Also adding options is possible, but .. i'd love to avoid it. If we had to do options, I'd do them like delta and use git config for them.

In the meantime, before I or someone else comes up with a clever solution, I think the best call is just to change the script manually. Not a huge deal given its size, IMO. Regardless, thanks for opening the discussion.

[paulirish]

Definitely keeping this open as I'm sure others will hit this.

Perhaps a git config entry (an alias?) that would define a command to resolve the upstream merge ancestor for comparison.