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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:41:37 -0400
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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

?

-Peff