I have the SHA ID of a commit that I am interested in and would like to know how to find the first tag that contains it.
How to find the first tag that contains a git commit
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Related Solutions
git log --decorate -1 [commit]
If commit (HEAD if omitted) has tags, the commit hash will be followed by (tag: name) (and possibly multiple other symbolic references too). You can pick this out more specifically with
git log --pretty=%d
In GitHub kernel repository, you can check all tags/kernel versions.
Example for dc0827c128c0ee5a58b822b99d662b59f4b8e970 provided by Jim Paris:
If three-dots are clicked, full list of tags/kernel versions can be seen.
Best Answer
As previously stated, this can be done with
git describe. In your particular case, however, you may find it more convenient to rungit name-rev --tags --name-only <SHA>, which outputs exactly what you want. See git-name-rev(1).