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How can I query git to find out which branches contain a given commit? gitk will usually list the branches, unless there are too many, in which case it just says "many (38)" or something like that. I need to know the full list, or at least whether certain branches contain the commit.
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It is based on "Find merge commit which include a specific commit". Find when a commit was merged into one or more branches. Find the merge commit that brought COMMIT into the specified BRANCH(es). Specifically, look for the oldest commit on the first-parent history of BRANCH that contains the COMMIT as an ancestor.
Search the branch (say, feature ) with exact matching. You can also search in both local and remote branches (use -a ) or only in remote branches (use -r ). The grep here could also result in false positives if there are other branches containing the commit whose names also contain <branch-name> as a substring.
To reduce the information and show only names of the files which committed, you simply can add --name-only or --name-status flag... These flags just show you the file names which are different from previous commits as you want...
From the git-branch manual page:
git branch --contains <commit> Only list branches which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not specified). Implies
--list.
git branch -r --contains <commit> Lists remote tracking branches as well (as mentioned in user3941992's answer below) that is "local branches that have a direct relationship to a remote branch".
As noted by Carl Walsh, this applies only to the default refspec
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* If you need to include other ref namespace (pull request, Gerrit, ...), you need to add that new refspec, and fetch again:
git config --add remote.origin.fetch "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*" git fetch git branch -r --contains <commit> See also this git ready article.
The
--containstag will figure out if a certain commit has been brought in yet into your branch. Perhaps you’ve got a commit SHA from a patch you thought you had applied, or you just want to check if commit for your favorite open source project that reduces memory usage by 75% is in yet.
$ git log -1 tests commit d590f2ac0635ec0053c4a7377bd929943d475297 Author: Nick Quaranto <[email protected]> Date: Wed Apr 1 20:38:59 2009 -0400 Green all around, finally. $ git branch --contains d590f2 tests * master Note: if the commit is on a remote tracking branch, add the -a option.
(as MichielB comments below)
git branch -a --contains <commit> MatrixFrog comments that it only shows which branches contain that exact commit.
If you want to know which branches contain an "equivalent" commit (i.e. which branches have cherry-picked that commit) that's git cherry:
Because
git cherrycompares the changeset rather than the commit id (sha1), you can usegit cherryto find out if a commit you made locally has been applied<upstream>under a different commit id.
For example, this will happen if you’re feeding patches<upstream>via email rather than pushing or pulling commits directly.
__*__*__*__*__> <upstream> / fork-point \__+__+__-__+__+__-__+__> <head> (Here, the commits marked '-' wouldn't show up with git cherry, meaning they are already present in <upstream>.)
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