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Re: Find commit that referenced a blob first

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2018, 21:19 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:02 PM Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a blob hash and I would like to know what commit referenced
> this blob first in a given Git repo.
git describe <blob>

If the given object refers to a blob, it will be described as <commit-ish>:<path>, such that the blob can be found at <path> in the <commit-ish>, which itself describes the first commit in which this blob occurs in a reverse revision walk from HEAD.

Since 644eb60bd01 (builtin/describe.c: describe a blob, 2017-11-15) (included first in 2.16.0

You're welcome, Stefan

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