Re: How to find a revision's branch name

On 3/18/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Marco Costalba [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Is it possible to get branch name from a revision sha?
Something like

$ git branch b14e2494b8a70737066f4ade4df1b5559e81b44b
todo

That is in general impossible.

quoted

I need this to correctly annotate files not in HEAD
tree. Currently qgit runs git-rev-list --header --topo-order
--parents --remove-empty HEAD -- <path>

to get a file history. But this fails if <path> is not found
in HEAD. The right command to run in our case should be:
git-rev-list --header --topo-order --parents --remove-empty
todo -- <path>

... I wonder why you care.  Wouldn't this work just as well?

        $ git rev-list --header --topo-order --parents --remove-empty \
          --all -- <path>

Yessss!!!

Thanks for the fix. I missed that.

Marco