Find the git branch or branches from commit id

Question

Hi All,

Actually am try to get a report on merge conflicts. I used 'git blame' to see who has changed what line, but i couldn't find the branch and repository name information.

Is there a way to find the repository name, branch name and author name of a file from 'git blame' or from commit ids' so that whenever a merge conflict occurs i can send an email to the authors who have touched that file/lines to resolve it.

Thnaks Senthil A Kumar

Answer 1

git blame should only give you the revision and author, but:

• as mentioned in "Git: Finding what branch a commit came from", you cannot easily pinpoint the branch where that commit has been made (branches can be renamed, moved, deleted...), enven though git branch --contains <commit> is a start.
• I doubt you can find the repository it came from (unless maybe by looking hard in the git log results, trying to find the parent of that commit comming from a ref/remotes namespace).

Now if you have a proper .mailmap at the toplevel of the repository, you will have the right email addresses as well.

In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the commit (enclosed by < and >) to map to the name. For example:

Proper Name <[email protected]>