Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I should have explained the use case better. No, you did not need to. I was not saying the feature is not useful. I was only saying that "explain where in the history X sits" command (i.e. "name-rev X" and "describe X") did not look like a good place to have that feature. > Upstream, it's v4.17-rc1 > Backported and released through v4.16-prod-r2 > Also backported to v4.16-prod-r1 (cuz the fix happened while r1 was going through rc's) > > So, it extends the description of how the original commit is released > (or given name) so that releases through cherry-picks are also > included. Perhaps. I am not yet 100% convinced, but having a less hard time trying to convince myself now ;-) Thanks.
