Re: Q: how can i find the upstream merge point of a commit?

Ingo Molnar [off-list ref] 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?

* Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Ingo Molnar [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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?

Well, if i checked out a linux-next related branch i'd expect those 
tags to go live, but if i stayed on -git i'd expect only Linus's tags 
to live.

I would not expect the linux-next tags to go away altogether - i 
added it as a remote, so i'd expect to see 'its' tags when i check it 
out.

at least that's my naive expectation from a 'remote' repository - if 
there's a better way to think about this then i'm eager to improve
:-)

Thanks,

	Ingo