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From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: git-hist
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:33:34 +0200
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* H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> [08-07-30 13:38]:

>	I can ask them what version they have, and I can then check if
>	the complaint was already addressed in an update that was
>	already released. In SCCS this was easy: they tell me the output
>	of the what command, I check if the bug was fixed in a newer
>	version and the answer is present. No such luck in git, as the
>	stamps are (non-sequitive) SHA id's. As we moved to git, we now
>	have to update those id's by hand, as the customers are used to
>	it. (At least we can now use readable date formats)

Hm, what about "git-describe --contains $SHA_OF_BUGFIX"?