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| author | Chris Ball <chris@printf.net> | 2010-07-31 19:07:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org> | 2010-08-12 02:38:58 +0200 |
| commit | 16970d83cc8f3cd2f7b7beba9824b7b1b9a716a3 (patch) | |
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| parent | 28962ecae852dc1f7cbd5c084bb5feb9e37ca9f5 (diff) | |
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doc/HACKING: Explain how to find when a given change was introduced
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diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING index ac68a35a0..4eee914ba 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING +++ b/doc/HACKING @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ To write a changes file, first categorize the change. Some common categories are: Minor bugfixes, Major bugfixes, Minor features, Major features, Code simplifications and refactoring. Then say what the change does. Then, if it's a bugfix, then mention what bug it fixes and when the bug was -introduced. +introduced. To find out which Git tag the change was introduced in, +you can use "git describe --contains <sha1 of commit>". If at all possible, try to create this file in the same commit where you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no |