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From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:54:56 +0000
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Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
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To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:12:16PM +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that's exactly what I need too. I need to produce it
>> programatically. I notice gitk displays, for each commit,
>> the branches that include it. If I knew a command for
>> deriving that, I could iterate through HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2...
>> until I see a remote branch.
> 
> How about:
> 
>   git name-rev --refs='refs/remotes/*' $COMMIT

Wow! That's clever.

Thanks,
	Paul.