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Re: show refs points to a commit

From
Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date
Jun 8, 2012, 19:47 UTC
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<4FD256CC.5010801@lyx.org>
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Op 8-6-2012 21:37, Ralf Thielow schreef:
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> After playing around with submodules, I haven't
> found a builtin way to show refs pointing to a
> specified commit without using UNIX pipes.
>
> Especially when you working with submodules, it
> would be very helpful to know which refs
> points to this commit in order to switch from
> "detached HEAD" to the branch you can (maybe)
> work with.
>
> Or did I miss something?
Is this what you mean ?

$ git rev-parse master f623ca1cae600e97cb0b38131fdd33e4fb669cf8 $ git name-rev f623ca1cae600 f623ca1cae600 master $ git name-rev --refs=refs/heads/* f344333cd f344333cd master~10

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