From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Q: how can i find the upstream merge point of a commit? Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:01:53 -0700 Message-ID: <7vlixc2wpq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20110608093648.GA19038@elte.hu> <20110608203433.61e02ad8.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110608125242.GA32745@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Rothwell , git@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 08 17:02:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUKGq-0003N3-NG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:02:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756263Ab1FHPCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:02:10 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:47775 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754318Ab1FHPCI (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:02:08 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B328845A3; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=gD3H88A4pQO6XrZ7EOJWmbnI1PA=; b=uGvj/v tQctAUpetCxz6HbugmnB3Dvl33midnDKR2caVTnX/bCOc6M3hns8gEmiDW2pHTZq CDTcp2rbcZsvcpyutlcdnNjng2T7U+WXvJ3HPY3TB/DPtNVe2wyF16K8buooI+zU jVbETtpRXpTddkk6FT6y2ONUvatzc1heXF0f4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=QxEBEG/g47vB5uSedf/2myMO2YG+J9QY DQT//BQ1A/j37mIqMlyvCSWkLSM2S8oc6bBEE3BQaJJ4pXbLlOITr+LiqE1HURsW xmPmMGtLTRUWEDehMqkuVOrb4q7ijWjpbcFkL3vBIz4jnglVwfsD38cotXsOdpha S2r6qM7OUoY= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AB545A2; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0CDF459A; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:04:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110608125242.GA32745@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:52:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 918D0E92-91E0-11E0-8810-C8CFB7AE1C3C-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ingo Molnar writes: > Still it's not entirely logical that 'foreign' tags invade another > branch this aggressively. Is it a problem for "describe", or is the root of the problem that git allowed you to slurp in 'foreign' tags that you do not care about?