Re: I just pulled and built 'next'...

From: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2007, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20070109173501.GA3732@cepheus>
In-Reply-To: <20070109032124.GA1904@spearce.org>

Hello,

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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>   $ git rev-list v1.5.0-rc0..next | wc -l
>   687
>   $ git rev-list v1.4.4.4..next | wc -l
>   1051
> 
> So what about doing Junio's suggestion of going by topology and
> coming up with the possible set of tags (v1.5.0-rc0 and v1.4.4.4
> right now), and if more than one is found compute the number of
> commits between each tag and the requested revision, and take the
> tag that has a smallest number of commits?

One scenario where this will fail is when a bugfix is commited on top of v1.4.4.4 and then is merged into v1.5.0-rc0+gabcdef.

Just my 0.02$.

Uwe

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