On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:04 -0700, 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. I thought that was what Stephen has the next/stable branch for: git log --pretty=oneline --no-merges next/stable..next/master | wc -l At least for each day you can find the number of patches....I don't think he tags the stable points, so historically that may be a problem. Harvey -- 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