On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:16:33PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:26:48AM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... >> > > I'm a little confused by this. Once you merge the branch into one of >> > > yours, that merge commit is a part of the history. >> > >> > Yes this has been discussed in the past. >> >> Would you have a link handy? My first thought was to create a tag, eg >> "Sent-through: subsystem <maintainer@xxxxxxxxxxx>" that I would add to >> patches as I pull them in. After all, I know where I'm sending them. >> Or should at any rate. >> >> > But when a developer bisects down to a certain commit and just looks >> > at it with git log there is no telling which subsystem this thing came >> > from and who actually funnelled it to Torvalds. >> >> True. >> >> > I do know you *can* find that out with some git magic, the problem >> > is that it is so magic that most developers don't know it and just >> > look at the signoffs. >> >> It would be helpful if there were a complement to 'git merge-base', say >> 'git merge-tip' to point to the merge commit that joined the branch >> containing commit X. >> >> Run in succession, it would yield committers me (I merged pinctrl-dove >> into pinctrl), you, Torvalds. > > grrr. Couldn't let it go. If you add this alias: > > merged-by-who = log --ancestry-path --reverse --merges --format=\"%h %cD \\\"%cN <%cE>\\\"\" > > to you ~/.gitconfig, then > > $ git merged-by-who 2c4b229bafcf..pinctrl/for-next > 08d4f0c8b131 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:36 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" > 7cab36e5eee9 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:52 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" > cdfe3175eb90 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:39:20 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" > a9ea2ed45a22 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:40:22 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" > 7bd0df13646d Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:12:17 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" nifty alias, I added it to my .gitconfig. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html