On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 7:07:06 PM UTC+2, Pawel Por wrote: > > Hi, > > At the beginning I'm sorry if this post is completely unrelated to this > mailing list. > I'm trying to find the base linux kernel version from which a patch has > been created and posted to LKML. > Most patches contain the index line. Is it the well known git index > (staging area) ? > Can I use the index to find the exact kernel version from which a patch > was created. > Please look at an example patch sent to LKML: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/14/497 > > It contains the following index line: > index 8dd1e55..9b0c81e 100644 > > I tried to find it using "git log" but I couldn't. > > I'm guessing those are object blobs, which don't really appear in the normal git log.
Try doing a git show 9b0c81e to see if that blob exists in your repository at all. If it does, you can see which commit(s) point to it. More hints here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
