On Thu, Apr 21, John Keeping wrote: > $ git tag --contains aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b Thanks for that, I did not know this variant. Unless git does not do it for me, I may hackup my script like that to find the earlierst tag: for i in `git tag --contains aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b` do git log --max-count=1 --oneline --pretty=%ct:%h:$i $i | cat done | sort -n | sed 's@^.*:@@;q' Olaf -- 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