Command to list commits that point to a given tree.

Carl Baldwin· May 8, 2006, 16:34 UTC · lore

Hi,

Normally, the natural thing to do is to dereference objects in the following directions:

commit -> tree tag -> commit tag -> other object

However, sometimes it is convenient to look in the other direction. The command git-name-rev satisfies this need partially by listing symbolic names for given commits.

Is there a command that can do this more generally? In particular, I am looking for a command that will return a list of commits that point to a particular tree.

Right now I plan to brute force it. Basically, I will call git-rev-list to list the commits and, for each commit, map it to a tree. Then, I will reverse the map in order to be able to look up a commit based on the tree.

I was thinking, though, that it might be somewhat useful in general to, at least, provide a command for the following:

- Given a blob, list the tree and/or tag objects that reference that
  blob.

- Given a tree, list the tree, commit and/or tag objects that reference
  it.

- Given a commit, list the commit and/or tag objects that reference it.

Carl

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Junio C Hamano· May 8, 2006, 20:34 UTC · re: Carl Baldwin · lore

Re: Command to list commits that point to a given tree.

Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:

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> ... In particular, I am
> looking for a command that will return a list of commits that point to a
> particular tree.
>
> Right now I plan to brute force it.

You might want to explain what problem you are trying to solve, by knowing which commit contains a particular tree object. There might be a solution to that unstated problem which does not require the reverse lookup.