From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:03:03 GMT
Subject: Re: show refs points to a commit
Message-ID: <7v4nqld11k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0XMO+FpCWgf96ffZ0qd7TNEmdBXicvvk23fnXBaTK_7weV-g@mail.gmail.com>

Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> I just want to know what's the refs where
> the *tip* points to my specified commit.

"git for-each-ref" gives the mapping from the tip of your refs to
object names.  We do not keep and give reverse mapping but there
should be enough information in for-each-refs output to get the
information yourself, I think.