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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to find a revision's branch name
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:35:19 +0100
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On 3/18/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is it possible to get branch name from a revision sha?
> > Something like
> >
> > $ git branch b14e2494b8a70737066f4ade4df1b5559e81b44b
> > todo
>
> That is in general impossible.
>

>
> > I need this to correctly annotate files not in HEAD
> > tree. Currently qgit runs git-rev-list --header --topo-order
> > --parents --remove-empty HEAD -- <path>
> >
> > to get a file history. But this fails if <path> is not found
> > in HEAD. The right command to run in our case should be:
> > git-rev-list --header --topo-order --parents --remove-empty
> > todo -- <path>
>
> ... I wonder why you care.  Wouldn't this work just as well?
>
>         $ git rev-list --header --topo-order --parents --remove-empty \
>           --all -- <path>
>

Yessss!!!

Thanks for the fix. I missed that.

Marco