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From: skillzero@gmail.com
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git cherry to find equivalent commit IDs?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:13:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2729632a0908131413w1a2efca8t31ac8cc43e1d6888@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Is there a way to get the commit ID of a patch that was cherry picked
(or via a manually applied patch)? I'm trying to get an equivalent to
git branch --contains, but instead of comparing the commit ID, it
compares patch IDs so it works for cherry picks and manual patches. It
seems like git cherry almost does what I want, but it only seems to
show the commit ID of the commit on the other branch rather than the
branch I specify to git cherry. I may just be using git cherry
incorrectly though.

For example, commit 3642151 on branch A was a cherry pick of a commit
460050c on master:

$ git branch -a --contains 3642151
  A

$ git branch -a --contains 460050c
* master

$ git cherry -v master 3642151
- 3642151435ce5737debc1213de46dd556475bfad1 fixed bug

I assume that means an equivalent change to 3642151 is already in
master (which it is, as commit 460050c). But I want to find out the
commit ID on master that's equivalent to 3642151 (i.e. something that
tells me it's 460050c).

I'm basically looking for something like git branch --contains, but
that searches by patch ID so it can find cherry picked or manually
applied patches:

$ git branch -a --contains-equivalent 3642151
* master (via commit 460050c)
  A (via commit 3642151)

Is there a way to do that?

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13 21:13 skillzero [this message]
2009-08-13 21:37 ` git cherry to find equivalent commit IDs? Avery Pennarun
2009-08-13 23:05   ` skillzero

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