Hi, On 2016-05-02 16:24:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:25:25PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > On 2016-05-02 15:17:54 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Sorry for that, I'd used git describe on the commit to determine which > > branch it was contained in (outputting v4.3-1188-g4b3a321). That > > obviously doesn't make sense though, as that just returns the state of > > the tree at which 4b3a3212233a was introduced, not the commit it was > > merged into mainline. > > I have an alias in my .gitconfig: > [alias] > dc = describe --contains > > which is what you need here: > $ git dc 4b3a3212233a > v4.5-rc1~171^2~43^2~3 > > hope this helps, Ah, perfect. Thanks. I made do with git tag --contains, but that's awfully slow; describe --contains is a lot faster. Andres -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html