From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:32:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: how can i find the upstream merge point of a commit?
Message-ID: <4DEF4FB3.1020400@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110608093648.GA19038@elte.hu>

Am 6/8/2011 11:36, schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> 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.
> ...
> But ... it would be much nicer if i could make 'git describe 
> --contains' work better.

$ git describe --contains --match 'v2.*' 189d3c4a94

-- Hannes