Commit searching

[Krzysztof Gogolewski]

Hi,

You can use git tag --contains <sha> to see the list of tags containing a
commit; this goes back to ghc-7.2.

A different option is to checkout the configure.ac file for a given commit;
there'll be a line such as
AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [6.9], [
glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org], [ghc])
which means that GHC was 6.9 (so the given commit was released in 6.10).

Of course both methods don't account for cherry-picks, the same change with
a different sha could have landed in a bugfix release.

-Krzysztof

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:27 PM Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi chessai,
>
> What I usually do for this is open up the corresponding GitHub page, e.g.:
>
> https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/bb3fa2d18686d0c08b57c66a90a9ea1b4e4482ee
>
> where I see the list of branches the commit was added to, below the commit
> message (note that you have to click "..." to see the full list of
> branches). The branches ending with `-release` (e.g. ghc-8.6.5-release)
> answer your question, I believe.
>
> --
> Best, Artem
>
>
> On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 23:01, chessai . <chessai1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Devs,
>>
>> Is there a way to take the sha1 of a git commit and find which
>> released version of GHC contains that commit, without resorting to a
>> manual cross-reference?
>>
>> Is it possible there could be some sort of webpage where this
>> information could be made accessible, just by pasting in a commit?
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