From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 03:56:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Associating tags with changelogs
Message-ID: <436ECC5F-0664-4379-8F69-0121AE5F496E@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <218b69370805042040h66d02979jac6bd64456a9d304@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds like you want git describe --contains.

-Kevin Ballard

On May 4, 2008, at 11:40 PM, Zack Brown wrote:

> I'm using git to extract changelog entries into a MySQL database, and
> I want to be able to associate each changelog with the official
> release in which it first appears. I can use "git-tag -l" to see a
> list of the tags, and I can use "git-log tag1..tag2" to view all the
> changelogs between two tags, but neither of these are exactly what I
> want.
>
> My script keeps track of the most recent changelog entry that it has
> processed into the MySQL database, so the next time it runs, it picks
> up from that entry, using "`git-log sha1string.. --pretty=fuller", and
> inserts only the changelogs since that entry into the database.
>
> What I'd like is to still be able to get only the entries since that
> sha1 string, while somehow identifying the tag of the release
> encompassing each entry listed in that set. Then when I input the
> changelog into my database, I can associate it with the proper
> official release (or -rc candidate).
>
> Is there a command to do that? I don't see anything in the man pages  
> for it.

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