Re: [PATCH v9] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2010, 12:24 UTC
Message-ID: <z2tf3271551004100524w9b8cf62ck7e889f87b7f2cb8e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4si8r02.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

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>    $ git log --first-parent --oneline origin/master..origin/pu
>
> and find "Merge branch 'rr/remote-helper-doc'" in the output.  The second
> parent of that merge commit (e.g. 6144af5^2 == ad466d1) is the tip of your
> topic.  You can verify it with:
>
>    $ git log -p origin/master..ad466d1
>    $ git checkout -b remote-helper-doc ad466d1
>    ... build further on it ...

Thanks for the excellent instructions. I'm just curious: why didn't you include these instructions in your rewrite of SubmittingPatches?

-- Ram