From: Olaf Hering Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:54:08 GMT Subject: Re: history damage in linux.git Message-ID: <20160421155408.GE3186@aepfle.de> In-Reply-To: <20160421131916.GB1589@serenity.lan> On Thu, Apr 21, John Keeping wrote: > $ git tag --contains aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b Thanks for that, I did not know this variant. Unless git does not do it for me, I may hackup my script like that to find the earlierst tag: for i in `git tag --contains aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b` do git log --max-count=1 --oneline --pretty=%ct:%h:$i $i | cat done | sort -n | sed 's@^.*:@@;q' Olaf