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Re: How to generate feature branch statistics?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2016, 23:31 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> W dniu 2016-07-20 o 20:49, Junio C Hamano pisze:
>
>> For our own history and workflow, the duration between the inception
>> of a topic branch and the time it gets merged to 'master' is not all
>> that interesting.
>
> Nb. if I haven't messed something up (the git history is not simple
> merging of topic branches into mainline), the shortest time from
> creating a branch to merging it in git.git is 7 seconds (probably
> it was a bugfix-type of a topic branch), the longest if I did it
> correctly is slightly less than 4 years (???): 641830c.

The former is quite understandable. The point of having such a topic is so that it can be merged down to older maintenance releases.

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  1. Ernesto MaseratiJul 20, 2016
  2. Jeff KingJul 20, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2016
  4. Jakub NarębskiJul 20, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2016
  6. Jakub NarębskiJul 20, 2016
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