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

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:51:07 +0200

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 21:29 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:40:36 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > *groan*, I tried that, but got:
> > 
> > # git describe --contains  189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7 --match '^v.*'
>                                                                                  ^
> These are globs. not regexps.

Yeah, figured as much, never would have thought of trying that though.
The man page said pattern, my brain made regex.