From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:28:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Computing the number of patches in linux-next tree
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807221727210.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <12c511ca0807220919q4db6ee1fr33dc70fe35c58efe@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

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.

Ciao,
Dscho