From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:45:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Find commit that referenced a blob first
Message-ID: <E632E745-03C6-4C7F-9B3F-CB46C0D7FCA7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbJnyRbeH8yMa=QaqNofA_Ek_SwmH5qRaCaq4cyQ26Kqg@mail.gmail.com>


> On Jul 19, 2018, at 11:19 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:02 PM Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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

Awesome! Thank you very much :-)

- Lars