Subject: Re: [bug#30446] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add ifdtool.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:00:33 -0500

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:50:49PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Hi Leo,
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:18:43 -0500
> > Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >> I notice the Git repo has tagged versions. If the latest one is
> >> inappropriate to build from, please use it in the git-version like this:
> >
> > How do I find out which commit corresponds to a tag (or which commits are
> > not in the 4.7 tag) ? 
> 
> You can use the tag name in the (revision ...) field (see e.g. libvpx).
> 
> To find which commits are not in a given tag, use something along the
> lines of...
> 
> $ git log --format=oneline v4.7..master

Also, `git describe --contains $commit` will tell you the latest tag
that contains the commit.