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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:49:24 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> This patch punts the deep thinking part and just picks the tip
>> committer and counts only merges in the history you are pulling in.
>> It may not be a very good heuristics, but the code structure should
>> be a good place to start.
>
> Yeah, this looks good to me (but I didn't actually *test* it, so
> that's just from looking at the patch).

As I said, I didn't actually *test* it, either, and the committer
based heuristics may have a huge room for improvements.