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Show containing branches in log?

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RDRobert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2014, 14:50 UTC
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I know that with the `git branch` command I can determine which branches contain a commit. Is there a way to represent this graphically with `git log`? Sometimes I just have a commit, and I need to find out what branch contains that commit. The reason why `git branch --contains` doesn't solve this problem for me is that it names almost all branches because of merge commits. Too much ancestry has been built since this commit, so there is no way to find the "closest" branch that contains that commit.

Is there a way to graphically see what is the "nearest" named ref to the specified commit in the logs?

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