From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Listing of branch creation time? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:00 -0400 Message-ID: <20070328025200.GA13563@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <17929.37382.984339.742025@lisa.zopyra.com> <20070327233552.GA7186@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bill Lear , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 28 04:52:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HWOGu-0001zU-P0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:52:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751212AbXC1CwH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751692AbXC1CwH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:07 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:1384 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212AbXC1CwG (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 10680 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2007 02:52:33 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (10.0.0.2) by peff.net with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 28 Mar 2007 02:52:33 -0000 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:06:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The merge-base is the right thing to do for *merging*, but if you keep > merging into the branch you are developing on (to keep up-to-date), the > above "what is on the branch but not in the origin" is definitely the > right thing to do. Of course you're right, I must have had afternoon brain impairment when I wrote that other message. -Peff