Re: Find a topic branch containing a commit

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2016, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CKLmjW82TJHUoqrM1smmiP=dcDqvOpN_QDPePEy0ZuJw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Before I start doing anything silly because I don't know it can
>> already be done without waving my C wand like a mad man...
>>
>> I often do this: find a commit of interest, the commit itself is not
>> enough so I need a full patch series to figure out what's going, so I
>> fire up "git log --graph --oneline" and manually search that commit
>> and trace back to the merge point, then I can "git log --patch". Is
>> there an automatic way to accomplish that? Something like "git branch
>> --contains" (or "git merge --contains")?
>
> https://github.com/mhagger/git-when-merged ?

Beautiful. If it had an option to show a topic (i.e. git-log from merge base to merge point) I would be ecstatic. Michael, any plans on bringing this in C Git? For many topic-based projects this would be very helpful addition, and I think it's not so hard to do it in C either.

-- 
Duy