Bryan Turner <bturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [...] > If you don't need the ancestor traversals "git name-rev" provides, > "git for-each-ref --count 1 --format "%(refname:short)" --points-at > <hash> refs/heads/" might work. That only goes back to Git 2.7.0, > though; still quite a ways off your 1.9 target. ("git branch > --points-at" does the same thing, I should add, and only for branches, > but you can't directly limit its output like you can with > "for-each-ref".. Perhaps that doesn't matter for your use case.) If > you want names like "master~2", from your example, though, > "--points-at" won't do what you need. Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I do want to consider names like "master~2". I was just hoping that I had overlooked another way to achieve the git name-rev --refs="refs/heads/*" --exclude="*/refs/heads/*" <commit> example I gave in my initial post. -- Kyle