Re: Commits gone AWOL, but not reported by git-fsck --unreachable

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: May 19, 2007, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq8xbkoir8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <A04FB6C2-20B2-4263-9D58-6C281C04C6C4@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

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> 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?

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Matthieu