Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 11/6/2012 7:56, schrieb Eric Miao:
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Am 11/6/2012 1:58, schrieb Eric Miao:
>>>> E.g. when we merged a series of patches:
>>>>
>>>>   [PATCH 00/08]
>>>>   [PATCH 01/08]
>>>>   ...
>>>>   [PATCH 08/08]
>>>>
>>>> How do we know this whole series after merged when only one of these
>>>> commits are known?
>>>
>>> You can use git name-rev. For example:
>>>
>>> $ git name-rev 9284bdae3
>>> 9284bdae3 remotes/origin/pu~2^2~7
>>>
>>> This tell you that the series was merged two commits before origin/pu, and
>>> then it is the 7th from the tip of the series. Now you can
>>>
>>> $ git log origin/pu~2^..origin/pu~2^2
>>>
>>> to see the whole series.
>>
>> I'm just curious how this is implemented in git, are we keeping the info
>> of the series that's applied in a whole?
>
> If the maintainer did his job well, then everything that you had in [PATCH
> 01/08] ... [PATCH 08/08] is in the commits of the series, and [PATCH
> 00/08] (the cover letter) is in the commit that merged the series.
>
> Anything else that I didn't mention but you consider as "the info of the
> series"?
>
>> But this still looks like be inferred basing on a branch head, and I'm
>> afraid this may not be applicable in every case.
>
> What's the problem? That it's inferred? Or that it needs a branch head?

Take kernel development for example, sub-maintainers not always keep
a patchset in a single branch, instead, there could be a mix of patchset
and single fixing patches on a same branch:

  ---A1---A2---A3---B---C---D---E1---E2---E3---E4---F---G---H---> branch

When we identify a specific patch, e.g. E3, is it possible to figure out
the whole patchset of E<n>?

>
> -- Hannes
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