Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Still more tweaking of git_changelog.

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> If we could figure out how to show which major release a master-branch
>> commit antedated, and which point release a back-branch commit
>> antedated, I think we would have something that's actually significantly
>> more useful for both purposes than either of these behaviors.
>
> I think we could get that behavior fairly easily by remembering the last
> tag matching one of the commits on a branch, as we chase the branch
> backwards.  However, I'm not seeing a convenient way to extract the
> commit SHA1s pointed to by the available tags.  git tag doesn't tell
> this and git show provides way too much information.  Anybody know the
> right incantation for that?

git rev-parse REL8_3_0

But I still want an option for the original behavior. I have been
using it extensively and I like it.

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