doc/HACKING: Explain how to find when a given change was introduced

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Chris Ball 2010-07-31 19:07:00 -04:00 committed by Sebastian Hahn
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@ -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