From: Kelly F. Hickel <kfh@mqsoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:38:38 GMT
Subject: RE: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as an ancestor
Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794302E0F9BA@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794302E0F9B2@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>

> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Johannes Sixt
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:38 AM
> To: Kelly F. Hickel

> $ git branch -a --contains the-sha1
> 
> -- Hannes
> 

Thanks, that looks like a really useful command.

Unfortunately, in this case it didn't print anything out (neither did
"git branch -r -a sha1").

What I'm beginning to suspect is that all the commits that should have
gone to master went to some unnamed branch.
Is that reasonable/possible/likely?  This commit has a full ancestry,
but doesn't appear to be on any branch.

In the above question there's an assumption that if a branch exists
without a name, then git branch -a --contains wouldn't print anything
out, is that correct?

Thanks,
Kelly