On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:13:59PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > My initial problem (still unresolved/unanswered) is that some commits > that appeared between v3.14-rc1 and v3.14-rc2 (specifically > 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1) are present in v3.15, but not > in my branch. > > I have just checked online the v3.14 version on > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi > > and I see also the same "problem": the commit removing 738 lines is in the log > 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1 > "ARM: dts: imx6qdl: make pinctrl nodes board specific", > but the v3.14 version of the file still contains the 738 removed line, > and I see no commit restoring those lines. > > I do not understand why those 738 lines are still present in v3.14 although > they were removed between v3.14-rc1 and v3.14-rc2 :( Commit 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1 isn't in v3.14: $ git describe --contains 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1 v3.15-rc1~77^2~40^2~57 $ git tag --contains 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1 v3.15 v3.15-rc1 v3.15-rc2 v3.15-rc3 v3.15-rc4 v3.15-rc5 v3.15-rc6 v3.15-rc7 v3.15-rc8 v3.15.1 v3.15.10 v3.15.2 [snip later tags] However, the commit date of 817c27a128e18aed840adc295f988e1656fed7d1 is between the dates of v3.14-rc1 and v3.14-rc2 so the default commit ordering of `git log` will show it between those two tags. `--topo-order` may help but I suspect the history is too complex to infer the relationship between commits without `--graph`. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html