Re: gitweb: kernel versions in the history (feature request, probably)

>   Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> I see gitweb is much more usable (faster) than a few months ago, but
>> there is one thing a bit problematic: in the history of patches I'm
>> very often interested in which kernel version of Linus' tree the patch
>> appeared for the first time. If it's not some big problem, and maybe
>> somebody else finds this useful too, I'd really appreciate adding such
>> a feature.
> 
>   in git terms, you'd like gitweb to provide output for command:
> 
> 	git describe --contains
> 
> This is interesting feature request. I guess the support would be nice,
> though in theory this operation can be a bit resource-intensive in case
> there is not many tags and a lot of development (with uncached
> repository, this query took quite a bit of time on my copy of the kernel
> git tree). Probably this should be an optional feature and somehow dwell
> on a separate page, which doesn't fit too well in the current gitweb
> page structure...

>> Petr, I hope there is no necessity to subscribe to the git list for
>> this one question, so I'd really feel greteful for forwarding, if you
>> find this request reasonable.
> 
>   Yes, there is no necessity - you can post this on the git mailing list
> without subscribing yourself.