Subject: Re: I just pulled and built 'next'...

From: Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:35:01 +0100

Hello,

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>   $ git rev-list v1.5.0-rc0..next | wc -l
>   687
>   $ git rev-list v1.4.4.4..next | wc -l
>   1051
> 
> So what about doing Junio's suggestion of going by topology and
> coming up with the possible set of tags (v1.5.0-rc0 and v1.4.4.4
> right now), and if more than one is found compute the number of
> commits between each tag and the requested revision, and take the
> tag that has a smallest number of commits?
One scenario where this will fail is when a bugfix is commited on top of
v1.4.4.4 and then is merged into v1.5.0-rc0+gabcdef.

Just my 0.02$.

Uwe

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