Re: [PATCH v9] Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Can I see the topic branch corresponding to my patches? If this is
possible, I can avoid the more painful procedure of extracting it from
the latest pu using git-resurrect.sh.

Run:

    $ git log --first-parent --oneline origin/master..origin/pu

and find "Merge branch 'rr/remote-helper-doc'" in the output.  The second
parent of that merge commit (e.g. 6144af5^2 == ad466d1) is the tip of your
topic.  You can verify it with:

    $ git log -p origin/master..ad466d1
    $ git checkout -b remote-helper-doc ad466d1
    ... build further on it ...

Hi,

   $ git log --first-parent --oneline origin/master..origin/pu

and find "Merge branch 'rr/remote-helper-doc'" in the output.  The second
parent of that merge commit (e.g. 6144af5^2 == ad466d1) is the tip of your
topic.  You can verify it with:

   $ git log -p origin/master..ad466d1
   $ git checkout -b remote-helper-doc ad466d1
   ... build further on it ...

Thanks for the excellent instructions. I'm just curious: why didn't
you include these instructions in your rewrite of SubmittingPatches?

-- Ram