Re: [PATCH 00/10] pinctrl: mvebu: remove hard-coded addresses from Dove pinctrl

[Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:16:33PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:26:48AM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> wrote:
...
> > > I'm a little confused by this.  Once you merge the branch into one of
> > > yours, that merge commit is a part of the history.
> > 
> > Yes this has been discussed in the past.
> 
> Would you have a link handy?  My first thought was to create a tag, eg
> "Sent-through: subsystem <maintainer@example.com>" that I would add to
> patches as I pull them in.  After all, I know where I'm sending them.
> Or should at any rate.
> 
> > But when a developer bisects down to a certain commit and just looks
> > at it with git log there is no telling which subsystem this thing came
> > from and who actually funnelled it to Torvalds.
> 
> True.
> 
> > I do know you *can* find that out with some git magic, the problem
> > is that it is so magic that most developers don't know it and just
> > look at the signoffs.
> 
> It would be helpful if there were a complement to 'git merge-base', say
> 'git merge-tip' to point to the merge commit that joined the branch
> containing commit X.
> 
> Run in succession, it would yield committers me (I merged pinctrl-dove
> into pinctrl), you, Torvalds.

grrr.  Couldn't let it go.  If you add this alias:

  merged-by-who = log --ancestry-path --reverse --merges --format=\"%h %cD \\\"%cN <%cE>\\\"\"

to you ~/.gitconfig, then

$ git merged-by-who 2c4b229bafcf..pinctrl/for-next
08d4f0c8b131 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:36 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>"
7cab36e5eee9 Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:52 +0000 "Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>"
cdfe3175eb90 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:39:20 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>"
a9ea2ed45a22 Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:40:22 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>"
7bd0df13646d Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:12:17 +0800 "Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>"

Once it makes it to mainline, one could use origin/master for the bottom
commit.

thx,

Jason.