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I often find myself in the following situation:

  1. Look at some code in a project (e.g. string-trim in subr-x.el in Emacs)
  2. magit-blame to see which commit added that code
  3. Wonder which tags of the project comes after that commit
    • Immediate use case is to find a version of Emacs that contains string-trim, so as to specify the dependency in a package header

It's not clear how best to achieve step 3. I can get the commit hash from step 2--then what?

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    One way to automate it would be to (1) find all tags, (2) git tag --contains b55aea382c32f4448892265f322a38290ce10305 (that's the commit that added string-trim as per your example). You'll get a list of tags. Since Emacs seems to be very consistent in tag names, you can just sort them and choose the earliest one.
    – wvxvw
    May 10, 2017 at 8:14

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If you visit the revision buffer (hit enter from the blame buffer), you should see a line that looks like this:

Parent:     41ce6f7027 * lisp/subr.el (string-suffix-p): New function.
Containing: emacs-24 emacs-25 [...] (5 more)
Follows:    mh-e-8.5 (3693)
Precedes:   emacs-24.5-rc3-fixed (2877)

The "Follows:" line is generated with git describe --tags <revision>, and the "Precedes:" line is generated with git describe --contains <revision>.

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