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Re: history damage in linux.git

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Apr 21, 2016, 13:24 UTC
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Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
> How can I find out whats going on? Is my git(1) 2.8.1 broken, or did
> Linus just pull some junk tree (and does he continue to do so)?

The branches recently pulled by Linus contain commits with rather old author dates, eg 8cad489261c564d4ee1db4de4ac365af56807d8a or 281baf7a702693deaa45c98ef0c5161006b48257. That will probably cause git describe --contains to take a different path through the history.

Andreas.
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