From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:13:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Commits gone AWOL, but not reported by git-fsck --unreachable
Message-ID: <839C7D1E-E1D0-4EA1-8221-789C418CB242@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8xbkoir8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>


On May 19, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
>
>> On May 19, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>
>>> The commit introducing it is  
>>> 566842f62bdf1f16c2e94fb431445d2e6c0f3f0b,
>>> and I'd say it's in git 1.5.1:
>>>
>>> $ git-describe --tags 566842f62bdf1f16c2e94fb431445d2e6c0f3f0b
>>> v1.5.1-34-g566842f
>>
>> Actually, I think that means it's 34 commits *after* v1.5.1, not
>> before.  It's in 1.5.2-rc0, but none of the 1.5.1.* series.
>
> You're right. Then, is there any easy way to ask git the oldest tag(s)
> that a commit is an ancestor of? In other words, which command should
> I have typed above?

I did it the hard way with "git log v1.5.1..v.1.5.1.1", "..1.5.1.2",  
and using grep to look for 566842.  Anybody better at constructing  
these incantations want to chime in?

~~ Brian