[FFmpeg-user] version numbering help

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Elliott Balsley <elliottbalsley <at> gmail.com> writes:

> How can I determine whether a particular commit is 
> included in a particular version of ffmpeg?

The general answer is:
Since there is only one development branch in the 
FFmpeg project it is very unlikely that a particular 
past commit is not in current FFmpeg.

> I’m interested in commit 7c3941b2

Which is from May 4th.

> the command-line shows ffmpeg version 2.2.git-197fe39

This is one month older and cannot contain a later 
commit.

The numbers are git hashes, consider reading some 
information about git, the numbers are not human-
readable.

Carl Eugen