From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:31:04 GMT
Subject: Re: How to generate feature branch statistics?
Message-ID: <CAPc5daUjK1k8teTw8enb3yNwo+WesJY3BVHM34Wdqu31czUB4Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <579004CC.8090503@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.