On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I want to check to which kernel version I need to upgrade to get a
> certain feature.  For my case it was introduced in 0567a0c022d5b.
>
> =09zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ rev=3D0567a0c022d5b343370a343121=
f38fd89925de55
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>
> =09zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git name-rev --tags $rev
> =090567a0c022d5b343370a343121f38fd89925de55 tags/v2.6.22~1686^2~1^3~5
>
> =09zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git name-rev --refs=3D*-rc1 $rev
> =090567a0c022d5b343370a343121f38fd89925de55 tags/v2.6.22-rc1~1009^2~1^3~5
>
> I don't now the underlaying algorithm, maybe it's to get a short string?
>
> Anyhow I want to know the earliest tag that includes this patch?  Is
> there something I missed?
>
> I remember there was a similar discussion regarding describe.

git describe --contains 0567a0c022d5b

probably a 1.5.3 feature? (certainly doesn't exist in 1.5.2.2)

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Julian

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