[Mesa-dev] Mesa branchpoint tags?

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> I was looking at a bug report about old software, and wanted to see what
> development branch a quoted commit was on:
>
> anholt at eliezer:anholt/src/mesa-release% git describe 97217a40f97cdeae0304798b607f704deb0c3558
> snb-magic-15797-g97217a4
>
> That's... not terribly useful.  It would be nice if git describe could
> be used so I could figure out what development branch a commit was for.

You could also have used "git branch --contains
97217a40f97cdeae0304798b607f704deb0c3558", which would've shown you
that it was first introduced in the 9.2-branch.