[Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, James Hogan <james.hogan at imgtec.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:42:05PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
>> > >    - Improving tagging for stable. The "version tag" option is broken
>> > >    and the "Fixes:" tag is always preferable, how do we get people to
>> > >    use that more often? (script it somehow?
>> > >    scripts/find-version-it-fixes ?).
>> > 
>> > Oh a script like that would be nice, but how would that work in reality?
>> 
>> Not all Fixes: tags are suitable for stable though. I've been caught out
>> by patches being applied to stable (4.2 maybe) due to a Fixes tag,
>> without prerequisite patches being applied.
>
> I also find the following alias useful to find the version number a
> commit is first merged in:
>
> vc = "!vc() { for i in `git tag --contains \"$@\" | grep '^v'`; do echo \"$(git log -1 --pretty='%ct' $i) $i\"; done | sort -n | head -n1 | sed 's/^[0-9]* //g'; }; vc"
>
> Its a bit slow and hacky and there's probably better ways, but it picks
> the tag a bit more reliably than "git describe --contains". Maybe that
> could be wrapped in a script that generates a Stable tag automatically
> from a Fixes tag for when the patch is suitable for stable.

If you can trust your tags to contain versions like in the kernel, I
think you can get away with just:

	git tag --contains <committish> | grep ^v | sort -V | head -n 1

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center