[Phpmyadmin-devel] git help -- finding in which tag/release a revision occurs

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Mon Aug 2 16:24:23 CEST 2010


Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
> On 8/2/2010 7:39 AM, Marc Delisle wrote:
>> Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
>>> Hi, hopefully one of you can help me figure out a git question I have. I
>>> know the specific revision where a change occurred -- for example
>>> rRELEASE_3_3_4-5777-gd7192b3 (DefaultCharset depreciated), but what I
>>> want to know is what release version that change will affect. Any hints
>>> how I can figure out in which release this will occur?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~isaac
>> Hi Isaac,
>> not sure I understand the question which seems to talk about a future
>> release. If a commit is done on the master branch only, it will appear
>> in the next feature release (3.4). If it's done on branch QA_3_3, it
>> will appear in the next bugfix release (3.3.6).
> 
> I think you understood exactly what I mean, but I was hoping there's a 
> way to look back in time. If something was done in master two months or 
> six months ago, there's no easy way to see which release came next? So 
> far I've just been comparing dates but hoped git would make it easier.
> 
> To explain a bit, this is for the wiki; when I have time (which might be 
> a week or three later), I read through the commit log and edit the wiki 
> page to match changes like depreciating DefaultCharset or adding the new 
> string formatting. The only problem is figuring out what version to say 
> with "this was depreciated in ____".
> 
> It's no big problem, I was just hoping to make things a bit easier.
> 
> Thanks!

Maybe the ChangeLog file would be a better help in this case?


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