Re: Computing the number of patches in linux-next tree

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Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Tony Luck wrote:
> >
> >> git tag | grep next- | sort | while read tag
> >
> > This should not be necessary... AFAICT "git tag" sorts its output already.
> >
> >> What does the "git-where-did-this-tag-branch-from-linus" command look like?
> >
> > git merge-base --all <branch1> <branch2>
> >
> > Be warned: there might be multiple merge bases.
> 
> I do not think that approach applies to linux-next, which is constantly
> rewound to the then-tip-of-linus and merge remaining bits.  The question
> is "where does this branch begin", which does not have an answer in git.

Oh.

Well, there is one thing that _could_ work most of the time, namely 
looking at the committer info of the first parent.

Dunno,
Dscho

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