Re: with git 1.8.3.1 get only merged tags

From: Michal Novotny <clime@redhat.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2018, 10:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CANT8FXQrrgj=iVV0tX=MO9LH+=joQUfJmtDeACwyQjNT93e0aw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87lg85ljsc.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:27 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 11 2018, Michal Novotny wrote:
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> > I need to emulate git tag --merged with very old git 1.8.3.1. Is that
> > somehow possible?
> > I am looking for a bash function that would take what git 1.8.3.1
> > offers and return only the tags accessible from the current branch
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> Jeff answer the question you had, but I just have one of my own: Is
> RedHat stuck on 1.8-era git in some release it's still maintaining, does
> this mean that e.g. you're still backporting security fixes to this
> 2012-era release?

Yes, that's exactly the case with RHEL-7.

clime