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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: finding earliest tags descended from a given commit
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:22:35 -0500
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> Just curious: every now and then somebody will ask me what kernel
> version they need to upgrade to to get some given fix.  I can find the
> commit with the given fix easily enough.  How do I then find the
> earliest tagged version containing that fix?

git-name-rev commit?

It should give you not only the tag, but how many commits before
that tag the fix was made.

-- 
Shawn.