From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:04:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Computing the number of patches in linux-next tree
Message-ID: <7vabg9n93f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807221727210.8986@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Tony Luck wrote:
>
>> git tag | grep next- | sort | while read tag
>
> This should not be necessary... AFAICT "git tag" sorts its output already.
>
>> What does the "git-where-did-this-tag-branch-from-linus" command look like?
>
> git merge-base --all <branch1> <branch2>
>
> Be warned: there might be multiple merge bases.

I do not think that approach applies to linux-next, which is constantly
rewound to the then-tip-of-linus and merge remaining bits.  The question
is "where does this branch begin", which does not have an answer in git.