small git lesson [Was: Re: Revert 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4170852473a4fcc9c67e8 ?]

Wed Apr 13 01:12:46 PDT 2011

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:02:04AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:46:10PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > BTW, if your kernel contains commit
> > 69a07f0b117a40fcc1a479358d8e1f41793617f2, can you try if reverting that
> > helps?
> 
> My kernel is pristine 2.6.38 and does not include this commit
> (was introduced before 2.6.39-rc1 according to gitk).
gitk is not the best tool to find this out.

$ git name-rev --refs=refs/tags/v2.6\* 69a07f0b117a40fcc1a479358d8e1f41793617f2
69a07f0b117a40fcc1a479358d8e1f41793617f2 tags/v2.6.39-rc2~3^2~43^2~4

so it was introduced just before -rc2.

Best regards
Uwe

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