tree ac6ba9dcffee8497b23f0395f81aa779884ddfb5
parent 29b684bf864f49d3f893154557203fc5b34c3b5b
author Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1463410872 +0200
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1463635159 +0200
encoding latin1

SCRIPTS: make git-show-backports capable of limiting its history

When comparing very different branches, it can take a very long time
to scan all commits from the very old common ancestor (eg: haproxy
1.4 to 1.7). Now it is possible to specify a range of commits instead
of a specific branch, and the analysis will be limited to this range
for all commits. The user is responsible for ensuring that the range
covers all possible backports from base to ref, otherwise some of them
may be reported missing while they are not.

This also works with linux kernels, for example :

   git-show-backports -u -q -m -r v3.14.69 -b v3.14.65 v3.10.101..HEAD