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Re: how to know this commit is merged by whic commit

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 13, 2012, 22:22 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:50:59AM +0800, lei yang wrote:
>
>> I have a question as the title indicate. assume the commmit id is
>> ee5r3343. how to know this commit is merged by  which commit?
>
> There is not one answer to "which commit"; there may be an infinite
> number of commits which merge it into something else. The best you can
> do is start at some point (e.g., the tip of "master") and walk backwards
> looking for commits which merge it (and you still may find multiple, if
> the commit was merged into two other lines of development, each of which
> was merged into your starting point). There is not an option to do this
> search automatically, so you would have to use grep, like:
Or you can use "git bisect" ;-).
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  1. lei yangJun 13, 2012
  2. Jeff KingJun 13, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2012

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