On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:16:33PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:26:48AM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > > I'm a little confused by this. Once you merge the branch into one of > > > yours, that merge commit is a part of the history. > > > > Yes this has been discussed in the past. > > Would you have a link handy? My first thought was to create a tag, eg > "Sent-through: subsystem <maintainer@xxxxxxxxxxx>" that I would add to > patches as I pull them in. After all, I know where I'm sending them. > Or should at any rate. > > > But when a developer bisects down to a certain commit and just looks > > at it with git log there is no telling which subsystem this thing came > > from and who actually funnelled it to Torvalds. > > True. > > > I do know you *can* find that out with some git magic, the problem > > is that it is so magic that most developers don't know it and just > > look at the signoffs. > > It would be helpful if there were a complement to 'git merge-base', say > 'git merge-tip' to point to the merge commit that joined the branch > containing commit X. > > Run in succession, it would yield committers me (I merged pinctrl-dove > into pinctrl), you, Torvalds. grrr. Couldn't let it go. If you add this alias: merged-by-who = log --ancestry-path --reverse --merges --format=\"%h %cD \\\"%cN <%cE>\\\"\" to you ~/.gitconfig, then $ git merged-by-who 2c4b229bafcf..pinctrl/for-next 08d4f0c8b131 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:36 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" 7cab36e5eee9 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:52 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" cdfe3175eb90 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:39:20 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" a9ea2ed45a22 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:40:22 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" 7bd0df13646d Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:12:17 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>" Once it makes it to mainline, one could use origin/master for the bottom commit. thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
