Re: Question about the commits found in a stable tree

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 05:45:47PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:10 +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Currently there are 3 different formats used for backports of a single
> >> > commit, which are:
> >> >
> >> > gregkh:          commit $HASH upstream.
> >> > davem:           [ Upstream commit $HASH ]
> >>
> >> ah thanks I missed the last one :)
> >>
> >> > git-cherry-pick: (cherry-picked from commit $HASH)
> >>
> >> is this format used by any stable trees ?
> > [...]
> >
> > So far as I know, all currently-maintained stable branches have a
> > mixture of these.
> 
> The last case doesn't seem to be frequent though, I failed to find an example.
> 
> Could you provide one ?

Sorry, I wrote it wrongly: git actually spells it 'cherry picked'
though people have sometimes used 'cherry-picked' or 'Cherry-picked'
when writing the reference by hand.

Ben.

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