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From: "Steven A. Falco" <sfalco@harris.com>
Subject: Re: How can I figure out what commits relate to a given diff?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:53:41 -0400
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Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:21:34AM -0400, "Steven A. Falco" <sfalco@harris.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to map a blob SHA1 to a commit?  In this example, I'd
>> like to map 9ceadaa and ad31bc6 to their commits.  It seems easy to go
>> the other way, seeing what is in a commit, but I've not been able to
>> find a method for going "backwards" from a blob to a commit.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> for i in `git rev-list HEAD`
> do
>         git ls-tree -r $i|grep -q cb4e8ed && echo "$i contains cb4e8ed"
> done
> 
> could do it for you.
> 
> I don't think there is a --contains for blobs, like git branch
> --contains works for commits.

Thanks!  It found the commit I needed.

	Steve