From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:44:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack Message-ID: <20100129184403.GC22101@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 19:37, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > I was intentionally slating this for maint, to fix a bug a user > > reported when handling large streams. > > Ah, sorry, did not notice that. > > Speaking of which, how does one figure out what commit a patch > is/could be based on? Couldn't we include that in the part behind the > triple dash? You have to tell the other guy in your cover letter section. You can try to guess if the index information is accurate by grepping around a log output looking for that blob sha-1 and then finding what branch that's in. Its not pretty. IIRC other DVCS systems include the ancestor identity in their patch output. Git doesn't bother, because in a multi-patch series the 2nd (and subsequent) patches would have useless id information. -- Shawn.