Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > You can see the "mainline" in Git with "log --graph" or in Emacs with
>> > "C-x v L".
>> No, that's *a* mainline.  It won't always agree with your idea of what
>> is *the* mainline.
> In what way and under which circumstances might that happen?

IIRC when you do:

    git commit
    git pull
    <merge&commit>
    git push

The merge commit will put what was previously "the mainline" in the
"second" position, while your "git commit" will now appear as being on
"the mainline".


        Stefan