2010/3/29, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Yang Tse wrote:
>
>
> > Given a single line of code in current git master, how does one find out
> which libcurl versions are affected by the given LOC?
> >
> > For example, given configure.ac commit history
> > http://github.com/bagder/curl/commits/master/configure.ac
> there is a
> > change entry with date 2009-11-21
> >
> http://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/f9e55c99087f879e2ad8113f8b26ebc2e24a0910
> >
>
>
> > How does one find out which is the first libcurl released version that
> includes that change?
> >
>
> I've used this method successfuly:
>
> $ git describe --tags [hash]
>
> ... which then displays the most recent tag and the number of commits since
> that tag:
>
> curl-7_19_7-79-gf9e55c9
>
> So it was done _after_ the curl-7_19_7 tag but alas before the next tag
> (curl-7_20_0) so it was thus included in the 7.20.0 release.

Ok, I then understand that GitHub web interface does not provide that
info, and that a local installation of git binaries is required to
carry out 'git describe --tags [hash]' on a local or maybe repote
repo.

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