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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: history damage in linux.git
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:24:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh473xic.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160421113004.GA3140@aepfle.de> (Olaf Hering's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:30:04 +0200")

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

> How can I find out whats going on? Is my git(1) 2.8.1 broken, or did
> Linus just pull some junk tree (and does he continue to do so)?

The branches recently pulled by Linus contain commits with rather old
author dates, eg 8cad489261c564d4ee1db4de4ac365af56807d8a or
281baf7a702693deaa45c98ef0c5161006b48257.  That will probably cause git
describe --contains to take a different path through the history.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21 11:30 history damage in linux.git Olaf Hering
2016-04-21 12:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-21 12:32   ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-21 12:51     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-21 13:19 ` John Keeping
2016-04-21 15:54   ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-21 16:36     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-21 13:24 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-04-21 16:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-21 16:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-21 17:08       ` Jeff King
2016-04-21 17:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-21 17:44           ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-21 22:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-21 18:05           ` Jeff King
2016-04-21 18:18             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-22 13:38               ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-21 17:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-21 17:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-21 17:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-21 17:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-21 18:09             ` Jeff King
2016-04-21 19:27           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-21 19:43             ` Linus Torvalds

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