Ok, I changed it to:

$ git trac find b42c581
Commit has been merged in 6.2.beta8.       <--------------------- new 
addition
commit e2ff979af93ea5f118e46621768efd923deaf2e5
Merge: bf56254 b42c581
Author: Release Manager <rele...@sagemath.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 14 00:00:20 2014 +0200

    Trac #16099: Update libpng to 1.2.51
    
    Straightforward update.
    Works on Cygwin64.
    
    Use tarball at:
    * http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jpflori/upstream/libpng-1.2.51.t
    ar.gz
    
    URL: http://trac.sagemath.org/16099
    Reported by: jpflori
    Ticket author(s): Jean-Pierre Flori
    Reviewer(s): Volker Braun



On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:04:53 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:44:18 PM UTC-4, leif wrote:
>>
>> Volker Braun wrote: 
>> > The issue is that libpng was updated, not libm4ri 
>> > 
>> > There is still something wonky because the two libpng versions ought to 
>> > be compatible. There is something wrong in how m4ri links to libpng on 
>> > OSX, causing it to depend on the version patchlevel. 
>> > 
>
>
>
> Well, starting from scratch did fix it, as always...
>
>  
>
>>
>>
>> But that's certainly not the same as having the (IMHO useful) "Merged:" 
>> field filled. 
>>
>> Similar for the changelog entries in SPKG.txt files; they provide[d] 
>> different (namely usually higher-level), and easier to access 
>> information than commit logs (and diffs) do. 
>>
>
> EXACTLY.   Your syntax doesn't actually tell me what I want to know, which 
> is the specific beta.  
>
> "Commit has been merged by the release manager into your current branch."
>
> is not helpful.  As Leif says, "you can't immediately tell into which 
> release it finally got merged."
>

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