Re: Computing the number of patches in linux-next tree

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Tony Luck wrote:

quoted

git tag | grep next- | sort | while read tag

This should not be necessary... AFAICT "git tag" sorts its output already.

quoted

What does the "git-where-did-this-tag-branch-from-linus" command look like?

git merge-base --all <branch1> <branch2>

Be warned: there might be multiple merge bases.

I do not think that approach applies to linux-next, which is constantly
rewound to the then-tip-of-linus and merge remaining bits.  The question
is "where does this branch begin", which does not have an answer in git.