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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How do I quickly check what heads a particular commit is in?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:50:35 +1200
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On 4/24/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> git merge-base $broken_commit "master"
>
> would show $broken_commit if "master" is a fast-forward of
> $broken_commit (i.e. "master" is a descendant).  I think that is
> what you are calling "$broken_commit is in master".

of course! Thanks! I'm in the middle of a somewhat nasty merge, and my
fingers got all tangled working up and down the history finding what
heads have this commit. I can now do a loop with bash calling all the
heads against it. Great!

 (hmmm. just had to decide to go back to basics and perform some
reverts before retrying the merge.)


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