On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:21:35 -0800 Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I personally find the date helpful as it can help place a commit without > needing to take the extra time to do a lookup. I've never found dates to be meaningful. I'm always more concerned about when a commit was added to mainline. Thus the version where the commit was added is very important for me. This is why I keep a bare clone of Linus's tree and commonly do: $ git describe --contains fd3040b9394c v5.19-rc1~159^2~154^2 $ git describe --contains a76053707dbf v5.15-rc1~157^2~376^2~4 I can easily see that a76053707dbf was added in 5.15 and fd3040b9394c was added in 5.19. The amount of work needed to add dates to Fixes tags would greatly exceed the amount of added work someone would need to do to do the above operations if they wanted to know the order of commits. -- Steve
