Re: Finding a commit

From: Douglas Campos <douglas@theros.info>
Date: Oct 21, 2009, 13:26 UTC
Message-ID: <ed88cb980910210626t750b4cc2r91d1dc22df14eb8b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ADEF095.3020406@box.net>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Soham Mehta <soham@box.net> wrote:

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> Given a SHA1 of a commit from one repository (say x), wondering what is a
> proper way to find out if that commit (change) also exists in a different
> repository (say y).
>
> Because SHA1 can change if a commit is cherry-picked around, I cannot just
> grep for that SHA1 from git-rev-list or git-log on 'y'. I need a way to know
> if a commit with identical changes (as in 'x') is also present in 'y'.
>
> I realize that Author and Timestamp do not change when the commit is moved
> (fetched, pushed, pulled, rebased, cherry-picked etc). So my current
> solution relies on grepping for the pair of Author-Timestamp from git-log on
> 'y'.
>

Have you tried git cherry?

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