On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:06:39PM +0200, CoDEmanX wrote:
> > in a future version of git you should be able to do "git tag
> --merged" to get the tags that are "merged" to a particular branch.
>
> Would it return every tag in the branch, even if it was created in
> that branch, and not merged from somewhere else? If no, than it's not
> what I am looking for.
>
> (Or more precisely: would it give a list of all tags, that point to
> commits present in the specified branch, regardless of whether these
> commits were originally done in that branch or merged from another
> branch? I hope my understanding of git is correct here...)
Yes, it would show all tags that are present in the history leading up
to that branch tip[1]. Git tracks a DAG of the history; it does not
remember "which branch" a particular action happened on.
-Peff
[1] Actually the argument to "--merged" does not need to be a branch at
all. It is really a commit, so you could specify a tag, an extended
sha-1 expression, etc.
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