Marc Branchaud

@marcnarc on GitHub. Posts as marcnarc@xiplink.com.

471

messages

patches posted

21%

of 29 series merged

threads started

2008

first message, Oct 16, 2008

Feb 25, 2026

since the latest message

Messages per year

The last 24 months

Patch series

Of 29 patch series (re-rolls counted once), 6 landed on master and 23 did not.

not mergednew-workdir: Never try to recurse into submodules on the initial checkout.Jan 14, 2019
not mergedfetch: Ensure that fetch.recurseSubmodules overrides submodule.recurse.Sep 21, 2018
mergedMake diff plumbing commands respect the indentHeuristic.v4, May 8, 2017, cf5e77223a
not mergedTweak help auto-correct phrasing.Dec 19, 2016
not mergedRelease note spelling and phrasing fixups.Nov 24, 2016
not mergedBUG: indent-with-non-tab always on (was: Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] Update git revisions)v6, Aug 15, 2016
not mergedgitk: Use translated version of "Command line" in getcommitlines.Apr 7, 2015
not mergedTweaking the gitk window title.Mar 23, 2015
not mergedRelNotes: Spelling & grammar tweaks.Nov 21, 2014
not mergedRelease notes grammatical fixes.Aug 5, 2014
mergeddocs: Explain the purpose of fetch's and pull's <refspec> parameter.Jun 11, 2014, db4e4113ea
not mergedfetch doc: Move FETCH_HEAD material, and add an example.Jun 2, 2014

A series is merged when one of its patches matches a commit on master by the same author, by subject. Versions are linked when they share a patch subject. Patches reworded before landing, or applied under someone else's name, count as not merged.

Recent emails

Feb 25, 2026Re: --no-decorate and %d in git-log(1)
Feb 25, 2026Re: --no-decorate and %d in git-log(1)
Feb 19, 2026Re: [PATCH v5] build: regenerate config-list.h when Documentation changes
Jan 23, 2026Re: The SHA256 of "xy\n" (ASCII, no CRLF) contains 1337, ACBAD in za, and I am 1aa
Nov 14, 2025Re: git fails to checkout SHA1 submodule in SHA256 repo with --depth=1
Jul 9, 2025Re: git-subtree documentation fix request: split example causes fatal error
Jul 9, 2025Re: gitk: visually indicate whether a tag exists on a remote
Jun 18, 2025Re: [PATCH] portability: allow building in systems without d_type
May 15, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 15, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 14, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 14, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 8, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 8, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 8, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
May 7, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
Apr 23, 2025Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command
Feb 27, 2025Re: General output formatting
Feb 27, 2025General output formatting (was: Re: \b character escapes in CLI usage)
May 17, 2024Re: [Q] rebase -i: turn "pick" to "edit", make no change, what should happen?
Mar 25, 2024Re: [PATCH] gitk: add "Hightlight commit name" menu entry
Mar 21, 2024Re: [PATCH] gitk: add "Hightlight commit name" menu entry
Mar 15, 2024sshd support for Git protocol v2 (was: Re: Name for initial branch is ignored when repository is cloned with SSH)
Feb 6, 2024Re: git-gui desktop launcher
Jan 8, 2024Re: Storing private config files in .git directory?
Oct 31, 2023Re: [PATCH v3] git-rebase.txt: rewrite docu for fixup/squash (again)
Oct 27, 2023Re: using oldest date when squashing commits
Oct 27, 2023Re: using oldest date when squashing commits
Oct 27, 2023Re: [PATCH v3] git-rebase.txt: rewrite docu for fixup/squash (again)
Oct 27, 2023Re: [RESEND v2] git-rebase.txt: rewrite docu for fixup/squash (again)