I'm following the commits to master branch of Messaging app in AOSP. Sometimes I see very old dated commits appear at the top in its logs:
How do I find where these commits come from? If they're on a separate branch, how do I find that branch and the initial original commit into the repository?
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That is the latest commit on master
. The date is when the author made the change, but it was committed recently (2 days ago).
The author and committer need not be the same.

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I'm not asking why the author and commiter are different... these are bug fixes from 4-5 years ago, and I only could see now. Where are such fixes are kept? I think I should be able to find them since this is an open source project, right? – Tekins Feb 15 '20 at 06:39
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@Tekins, Android vendors completely out of the idea of OSS and putting back changes. So, it may have been kept in many places, starting from internal repository of a vendor. – 0andriy Feb 15 '20 at 10:45