On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2 July 2014 16:50, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > I have created a script for just this functionality which I use very > often, and have created a gist with the files at > <https://gist.github.com/sunny256/2eb583f21e0ffcfe994f>, I think it > should solve your problem. It contains these files: > > git-wn > > "wn" means "What's New" and will create a visual graph of all commits > which has a specified ref as ancestor. It also needs the following > script, just put it into your $PATH somewhere: > > git-lc > > "lc" means "List branches Containing this commit" and generates a list > of all branches containing a specified ref. > > The files originates from <https://github.com/sunny256/utils>, but > I've modified them in the gist to make your life easier. :) > > Hope that helps, > Øyvind I'm finally getting around to trying this out but it isn't working on Windows because there is no fmt command in msysgit. Do you have a workaround I can use? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html