How can I query git to find out which branches contain a given commit? gitk will usually list the branches, unless there are too many, in which case it just says "many (38)" or something like that. I need to know the full list, or at least whether certain branches contain the commit.
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A:
From the git branch manual page:
git branch --contains <commit>
Only list branches which contain the specified commit.
See also this git ready article.
The
--containstag will figure out if a certain commit has been brought in yet into your branch. Perhaps you’ve got a commit SHA from a patch you thought you had applied, or you just want to check if commit for your favorite open source project that reduces memory usage by 75% is in yet.
$ git log -1 tests
commit d590f2ac0635ec0053c4a7377bd929943d475297
Author: Nick Quaranto <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Apr 1 20:38:59 2009 -0400
Green all around, finally.
$ git branch --contains d590f2
tests
* master
VonC
2009-09-14 04:08:58