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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cross-reference the manpages for git-name-rev and git-describe
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:01:13 +0200
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>>> wouldn't this be useful?
>>> 
>>> $ git-describe --contains --tags 1b600e659
>>> v1.5.0-rc3~34

[ I didn't receive this message, and gmane doesn't seem to have it.
  Strange ]

>> Like this?  ;-)
>
> Yeah, something like that.
>
> Now we need to make sure that the name of the option --contains
> is sane, I guess.

It seems OK to me. Perhaps --forward (optionally with a --backward
overriding it) could do too.

-- 
Matthieu