Re: name-rev does not show the shortest path

["Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hello Julian,

Julian Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >I want to check to which kernel version I need to upgrade to get a
> >certain feature.  For my case it was introduced in 0567a0c022d5b.
> >
> >	zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ 
> >	rev=0567a0c022d5b343370a343121f38fd89925de55
> >
> >	zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git name-rev --tags $rev
> >	0567a0c022d5b343370a343121f38fd89925de55 tags/v2.6.22~1686^2~1^3~5
> >
> >	zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git name-rev --refs=*-rc1 $rev
> >	0567a0c022d5b343370a343121f38fd89925de55 
> >	tags/v2.6.22-rc1~1009^2~1^3~5
> >
> >I don't now the underlaying algorithm, maybe it's to get a short string?
> >
> >Anyhow I want to know the earliest tag that includes this patch?  Is
> >there something I missed?
> >
> >I remember there was a similar discussion regarding describe.
> 
> git describe --contains 0567a0c022d5b
> 
> probably a 1.5.3 feature? (certainly doesn't exist in 1.5.2.2)
That command says v2.6.22~1686^2~1^3~5, too.  That is, it doesn't use
the "older" v2.6.22-rc1 tag as a basis.

Best regards
Uwe


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