Re: merge status

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -rw-r--r--    1 akpm     akpm        78245 Nov  9 11:19 git-ia64.patch
> 
> Some of this size may be a git artifact (or to be strictly accurate
> an artifact of the way I maintain my git branches).  I just merged
> up the latest linus branch into my test tree, and then ran:
> 
>  $ git diff linus test
> 
> which only came up with 34799 bytes of diff.

Yes, sorry, I'd forgotten that I'm now including `git log' output in the
git-*.patch files.

diffstat patches/git-ia64.patch says:
 13 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)

>  The extra bytes you
> see may be due to some commits that went into my test tree, but
> I goofed some of the comments ... so I ended up with the same patches
> going to my release tree, but as different commits.  I assume that
> quilt then figures out that this stuff is already in Linus tree?
> 
> I think that I may need to periodically ditch and re-create my test
> branch ... it is full of "Auto-update from upstream" commits, plus
> all the commits to pull in topic branches.  So when I've merged
> over all the topic branches to send to Linus the contents of the
> tree exactly match my release tree ... the history is very different
> (and somewhat messy in places).

Yes, the `git log' output is >40k and is stuffed full of "Pull ...  into
...  branch" and "Auto-update from upstream" messages.  I wonder if there's
some way of asking git-diff to omit that stuff..