Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> writes:

> I should have explained the use case better.

No, you did not need to.  I was not saying the feature is not useful.
I was only saying that "explain where in the history X sits" command
(i.e. "name-rev X" and "describe X") did not look like a good place
to have that feature.

>   Upstream, it's v4.17-rc1
>     Backported and released through v4.16-prod-r2
>       Also backported to v4.16-prod-r1 (cuz the fix happened while r1 was 
> going through rc's)
>
> So, it extends the description of how the original commit is released
> (or given name) so that releases through cherry-picks are also
> included.

Perhaps.  I am not yet 100% convinced, but having a less hard time
trying to convince myself now ;-)

Thanks.

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