Hi Egor, On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:32:29AM +0000, Egor Shestakov wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I've just noticed that nobody is using `git describe` in backport > explanation. I suppose it may be convenient sometimes to mark certain > commit and version where a problem appears. Does this approach has some > drawbacks?
What do you mean ? I'm personally using git describe multiple times a day to know in which version a commit was merged. But I don't see the relation with backports here. > I see only some awkwardness i.e. v2.6-dev1-142-g34527d535, > only "2.6" and "34527d535" are helpful for backporters, maybe "dev1" too, > but I'm not sure. Certainly this approach is not always applicable, > especially when a problem was made by many commits and it's unclean > what exactly is to blame for this. I really have no idea what you're speaking about unfortunately :-( Care to show where you saw a version (or commit id?) that was unclear and what you'd have expected instead ? Thanks, Willy
