Re: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as an ancestor

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Your best bet is perhaps that you create a branch at the commit

  $ git branch tmp-branch your_sha1

so that the commits are not lost, then you cherry-pick them to master.

It could be that there are more commits that are built on top of the one
you are aware of.  Finding unreachable commits from "git fsck --full"
might help you find them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:37 AM
To: Johannes Sixt
Cc: Kelly F. Hickel; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as

an

ancestor

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Your best bet is perhaps that you create a branch at the commit

  $ git branch tmp-branch your_sha1

so that the commits are not lost, then you cherry-pick them to

master.

It could be that there are more commits that are built on top of the
one
you are aware of.  Finding unreachable commits from "git fsck --full"
might help you find them.

Thanks, turned out to be my misunderstanding of how to do incremental
imports
(see my response to Johannes).

Thanks for the help,
-Kelly