# gitk and tags

2 messages from 2009-02-12 to 2009-02-12. Participants: Joakim Tjernlund, Santi Béjar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17756

## Joakim Tjernlund, 2009-02-12 17:13

Subject: gitk and tags
Message-ID: <OF13533D2E.931134C6-ONC125755B.005E1480-C125755B.005EAB59@transmode.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/OF13533D2E.931134C6-ONC125755B.005E1480-C125755B.005EAB59%40transmode.se

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Is there any way to make gitk display tags when specifying a path?
example: gitk drivers/usb/gadget
will show me all commits that touches this directory but I can't make gitk 
show
me where the tags are so I can see which commits made it into what 
release.

  Jocke

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## Santi Béjar, 2009-02-12 17:41

Subject: Re: gitk and tags
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0902120941r6c0be562r27a67e978c7cddd7@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/adf1fd3d0902120941r6c0be562r27a67e978c7cddd7%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <OF13533D2E.931134C6-ONC125755B.005E1480-C125755B.005EAB59@transmode.se>

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2009/2/12 Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>:
> Is there any way to make gitk display tags when specifying a path?
> example: gitk drivers/usb/gadget
> will show me all commits that touches this directory but I can't make gitk
> show
> me where the tags are so I can see which commits made it into what
> release.

With a recent git you can say:

gitk --simplify-by-decoration drivers/usb/gadget

it will show the commits modifying the file and with a ref (tag or branch).

With the command line you can use:

git tag --contains <commit> # only in git v1.6.2-rc0

it lists all the tags that contain the given commit,

or

git describe --contains <commit>

that tells which is the nearer tag that contains the given commit.

HTH,
Santi

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