From: Kelly F. Hickel <kfh@mqsoftware.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:31:51 GMT
Subject: RE: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as an ancestor
Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794302E0F9D9@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3adhj2ku.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:37 AM
> To: Johannes Sixt
> Cc: Kelly F. Hickel; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as
an
> ancestor
> 
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> 
> > Your best bet is perhaps that you create a branch at the commit
> >
> >   $ git branch tmp-branch your_sha1
> >
> > so that the commits are not lost, then you cherry-pick them to
> master.
> 
> It could be that there are more commits that are built on top of the
> one
> you are aware of.  Finding unreachable commits from "git fsck --full"
> might help you find them.

Thanks, turned out to be my misunderstanding of how to do incremental
imports
(see my response to Johannes).

Thanks for the help,
-Kelly