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Subject: Re: Commits gone AWOL, but not reported by git-fsck --unreachable
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:15:24 -0700
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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

> On May 19, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
>>
>>> On May 19, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>
>>>> The commit introducing it is
>>>> 566842f62bdf1f16c2e94fb431445d2e6c0f3f0b,
>>>> and I'd say it's in git 1.5.1:
>>>>
>>>> $ git-describe --tags 566842f62bdf1f16c2e94fb431445d2e6c0f3f0b
>>>> v1.5.1-34-g566842f
>>>
>>> Actually, I think that means it's 34 commits *after* v1.5.1, not
>>> before.  It's in 1.5.2-rc0, but none of the 1.5.1.* series.
>>
>> You're right. Then, is there any easy way to ask git the oldest tag(s)
>> that a commit is an ancestor of? In other words, which command should
>> I have typed above?
>
> I did it the hard way with "git log v1.5.1..v.1.5.1.1", "..1.5.1.2",
> and using grep to look for 566842.  Anybody better at constructing
> these incantations want to chime in?

Perhaps "git-name-rev --refs='refs/tags/v*' $it"?