From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:22:35 GMT Subject: Re: finding earliest tags descended from a given commit Message-ID: <20070127042235.GA9966@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20070127040618.GA14205@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" 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.