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Re: finding earliest tags descended from a given commit

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jan 27, 2007, 04:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20070127042235.GA9966@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<20070127040618.GA14205@fieldses.org>
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> Just curious: every now and then somebody will ask me what kernel
> version they need to upgrade to to get some given fix.  I can find the
> commit with the given fix easily enough.  How do I then find the
> earliest tagged version containing that fix?
git-name-rev commit?

It should give you not only the tag, but how many commits before that tag the fix was made.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 2 of 22 in “finding earliest tags descended from a given commit”
  1. J. Bruce FieldsJan 27, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceJan 27, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsJan 27, 2007
  4. J. Bruce FieldsJan 27, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceJan 27, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 27, 2007
  7. name-rev: introduce the --ref-filter=<regex> optionJohannes Schindelin, Jan 27, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2007
  9. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2007
  12. git-name-rev: accept list of refs from userJeff King, Feb 17, 2007
  13. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2007
  15. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2007
  16. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2007
  19. name-rev: introduce the --ref-filter=<pattern> optionJohannes Schindelin, Feb 17, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2007

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