From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:24:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vk4si8r02.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, >    $ 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