diff --git a/doPatch.go b/doPatch.go
index ee70400..50e12de 100644
--- a/doPatch.go
+++ b/doPatch.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ func doPatch() error {
 			log.Info("patch", p.Filename, p.Namespace)
 		}
 		me.forge.SubmitPatchesNew(old, "oldpatchset")
+		log.Infof("submitted %d old patches\n", old.Len())
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/helperPatches.go b/helperPatches.go
index 9280adb..c869697 100644
--- a/helperPatches.go
+++ b/helperPatches.go
@@ -108,6 +108,14 @@ func cleanSubject(line string) string {
 	return strings.TrimSpace(cleaned)
 }
 
+// jcarr@framebook:~/go/src/go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb$ git branch --contains 4a27e7702b9b975b066ec9d2ee7ac932d86552e3
+// * jcarr
+// jcarr@framebook:~/go/src/go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb$ git merge-base --is-ancestor "4a27e7702b9b975b066ec9d2ee7ac932d86552e3" "devel" ; echo $?
+// 1
+// jcarr@framebook:~/go/src/go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb$ git merge-base --is-ancestor "4a27e7702b9b975b066ec9d2ee7ac932d86552e3" "jcarr" ; echo $?
+// 0
+
+
 func findCommitByHash(hash string, subject string) (string, error) {
 	cmd := exec.Command("git", "log", "--pretty=format:%H %s")
 	var out bytes.Buffer