Command line tips and tricks

Linux

Given sha of commit, we want to know the first tag that contains the fix.

tag=$1
git describe --match 'v*' --contains "$tag" | sed 's/[~^].*//'

Clang

eh, depends on the r123456 svn-revision, which is not easy to map to a release version, and if it got cherry picked back to a bugfix release. WIP.

For finding which commit may have removed a string, try:

$ git log -S <string> <file>

(via Saravana Kannan)

For fetching a patch series from the mailing list

Recommend installing b4.

$ b4 am <lore thread url> -o - | git am
# example
$ b4 am https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmsap8iB+H5JXiHYwSJFrtQ_krjNH7eQCGe7p-LjK7ftA@mail.gmail.com/T/\#t -o - | git am