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Subject: Re: Command to list commits that point to a given tree.
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Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:

> ... In particular, I am
> looking for a command that will return a list of commits that point to a
> particular tree.
>
> Right now I plan to brute force it.

You might want to explain what problem you are trying to solve,
by knowing which commit contains a particular tree object.
There might be a solution to that unstated problem which does
not require the reverse lookup.