bin/get-extra-pick-list: use git merge-base to get the branchpoint
Since mesa development history is linear and the only diversion is at
the branchpoint. Thus we can drop the ad-hoc parsing and use git
merge-base to retrieve it.
Cc: "13.0 17.0" <mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>
(cherry picked from commit cb1947eac70f63d78835a5442017b1f3b7099d77)
diff --git a/bin/get-extra-pick-list.sh b/bin/get-extra-pick-list.sh
index a9d25b9..f292d3e 100755
--- a/bin/get-extra-pick-list.sh
+++ b/bin/get-extra-pick-list.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
# $ bin/get-extra-pick-list.sh | tee picklist
# Use the last branchpoint as our limit for the search
-# XXX: there should be a better way for this
-latest_branchpoint=`git branch | grep \* | cut -c 3-`-branchpoint
+latest_branchpoint=`git merge-base origin/master HEAD`
# Grep for commits with "cherry picked from commit" in the commit message.
git log --reverse --grep="cherry picked from commit" $latest_branchpoint..HEAD |\