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