Re: Q: how can i find the upstream merge point of a commit?

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Jun 8, 2011, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20110608203433.61e02ad8.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20110608093648.GA19038@elte.hu>

Hi Ingo,

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:36:48 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

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> 
> This might be a FAQ, but i couldn't find an elegant Git-ish answer 
> for it, so please bear with my stupid question :-)
> 
> In an upstream Linux kernel Git repo, with linux-next as a remote 
> present (but -git checked out), what is the way to find out when a 
> particular commit was merged upstream?
> 
> So for example when was 189d3c4a94 merged upstream?
> 
> The proper Git answer would be:
> 
>   $ git describe --contains 189d3c4a94
>   next-20080501~97
> 
> But the next-20080501 tag is useless, and i don't have linux-next as 
> HEAD, it's only a remote.

You can restict which tags get used:

$ git describe --contains --match 'v*' 189d3c4a94 v2.6.26-rc1~155

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/