From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adding files to a git-archive when it is generated, and whats the best way to find out what branch a commit is on?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:40:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130907290140y25c6a0b2r5ed0123e0ce1ae1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b18b3110907290115v1f30eeat748631bb09f92517@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:15 AM, demerphq<demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another question is whether anyone has any advice on the best way to
> find out the "best" branch an arbitrary commit is on. Where best can
> be flexibly definied to handle commits that are reachable from
> multiple branches. I have hacked a solution involving git-log and
> grep, but it performs quite poorly. I was wondering if there is a
> better solution.
'git describe' does this.
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 8:15 Adding files to a git-archive when it is generated, and whats the best way to find out what branch a commit is on? demerphq
2009-07-29 8:40 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2009-07-29 8:41 ` Santi Béjar
2009-07-29 9:21 ` demerphq
2009-07-29 9:33 ` Santi Béjar
2009-07-29 9:51 ` demerphq
2009-07-29 11:13 ` Santi Béjar
2009-07-30 20:33 ` René Scharfe
2009-07-31 10:04 ` demerphq
[not found] ` <m3hbwtrpip.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
2009-07-31 13:48 ` demerphq
2009-08-02 13:52 ` René Scharfe
2009-08-02 14:19 ` demerphq
2009-08-04 17:50 ` René Scharfe
2009-07-29 16:12 ` Jeff Epler
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