I need to get a list of refs that can reach a certain SHA in in a script.
git branch --contains SHA
would be great (runs in ~2 seconds), but not my preferred option for scripting.
I tried
for br in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/)
do
git merge-base --is-ancestor $1 ${br}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "${br}"
fi
done
Which gives me perfect output, but takes 82 seconds to run in my environment.
Is there an alternative I'm missing to give me the run time performance of 'git branch --contains' but with stable output suitable for parsing?
Thanks in advance,
-Andrew
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 08:19:07PM +0000, Crabtree, Andrew wrote:
I need to get a list of refs that can reach a certain SHA in in a script.
git branch --contains SHA
would be great (runs in ~2 seconds), but not my preferred option for scripting.
I tried
for br in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/)
do
git merge-base --is-ancestor $1 ${br}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "${br}"
fi
done
Which gives me perfect output, but takes 82 seconds to run in my environment.
Right. There's some setup work that happens in `git branch --contains`
that we end up repeating.
Is there an alternative I'm missing to give me the run time
performance of 'git branch --contains' but with stable output suitable
for parsing?
Sadly, no, there isn't currently. The right tool would be `git
for-each-ref --contains`, but it doesn't exist yet. I was working
towards it, but got stopped on factoring out a `--contains` traversal
suitable for both `git tag` and `git branch` (they currently are
different and make performance tradeoffs based on the expected depth of
the merge bases, which is usually different between tags and
branches)[1]. That's work I'd love to resume, but I haven't gotten
around to it yet.
-Peff
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/252472