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

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:40:36 +0200

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 20:34 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> You can restict which tags get used:
> 
> $ git describe --contains --match 'v*' 189d3c4a94
> v2.6.26-rc1~155

*groan*, I tried that, but got:

# git describe --contains  189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7 --match '^v.*'
fatal: cannot describe '189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7'

and

# git describe --contains  189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7 --match 'v.*'
fatal: cannot describe '189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7'

at which point I gave up..