On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Agreed. I've been missing such a command and have wanted to add > > one but it wasn't important enough to me to actually code it. :) > > Everything you said in your message sounds sane and makes sense > to me. Now we have to find a sucker^Wvolunteer to implement it > ;-). Ehh. As far as I can see it's - a damn hard thing to do efficiently - essentially exactly the same problem you already solved with "git describe" In other words, I think you could make git describe do it, by simply making it parse not just all tags, but also walking the branch log. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html