From: Chris Ball Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:07:00 +0000 (-0400) Subject: doc/HACKING: Explain how to find when a given change was introduced X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.2.15-alpha~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16970d83cc8f3cd2f7b7beba9824b7b1b9a716a3;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git doc/HACKING: Explain how to find when a given change was introduced --- diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING index ac68a35a08..4eee914ba9 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 ". 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