Re: [PATCHES] Docs on automatic dependency tracking

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:49:37PM CEST:
> > On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > FWIW, somehow you managed to apply these two patches separately
> > > to each of these branches, instead of merging them all from
> > > maint.
> > 
> > Ouch, that's true... how could this be possible?  I cannot
> > immagine what error I might have done to cause this mess...  Do
> > you have idea?  I'd like to avoid such blunders in the future,
> > and a possible explanation of the present blunder might be
> > helpful in this regard.
> 
> Maybe you invoked 'git rebase' across a merge commit?
Possible... I can't remember precisely, though.
> That effectively removes the merge and duplicates the
> previously-merged commits, unless you use -p aka.
> --preserve-merges.  I've never tried -p.
> 
> > Sorry for all this,
> 
> It's no big deal at all, esp. since you're doing the work.
That's not a good excuse for messing up the automake official repo.
> I just wanted to make you aware of it.
Good idea.

This problem indicates that `git --dry-run' is not enough for me to 
check the correctness of the push; do you know if there is a way to 
show which commits are added to which branches during a push
(while still in `dry-run' mode, obviously)?
 
Regards,
  Stefano