From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:22:48 GMT
Subject: Re: how to know this commit is merged by whic commit
Message-ID: <7vzk86g8cn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120613213435.GA25301@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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" ;-).