Re: history damage in linux.git

Olaf Hering [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Apr 21, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

My guess is that this commit has been sitting for a long time in a
repo outside Linus' linux.git, and got merged only recently.

Thats what it looks like. And thats what I'm complaining about. But in
fact that file is there since v3.13-rc7 (if the tag is really correct in
my patch file), since at least end of 2014.

Ah, indeed. It was merged right before 3.13. See "git tag --contains
aed06b9cfcab".

It's indeed weird that "git describe --contains" gives a named based on
tag v4.6-rc1, but it is not really incorrect since tags/v4.6-rc1~9^2~792
is indeed a correct name for aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b,
and actually uses a tag that follows it.

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Matthieu Moy
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