On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
Hello, 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) -- Julian --- Man who sleep in beer keg wake up sticky.
