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.
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Does this answer your question? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1474115/find-tag-information-for-a-given-commit – jasonwryan Sep 09 '12 at 23:55
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Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7923091/how-to-list-all-tags-that-contain-a-commit – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com May 31 '18 at 16:31
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As previously stated, this can be done with git describe. In your particular case, however, you may find it more convenient to run git name-rev --tags --name-only <SHA>, which outputs exactly what you want. See git-name-rev(1).
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git describe --contains "$committish" shows a reference to the commit built on a tag plus a ~$n ancestorhood count, so the following command shows the most recent tag that contains a commit:
git describe --contains "$committish" | sed 's/~.*//'
If there is no tag that contains this commit, git describe will fail. If you'd like to get the (abbreviated) committish instead, add the --always option.
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