Question

Git blame shows a change made to a file. I want to know when that change was merged to our live branch.

I could probably track it down with a graphical client, but there’s a lot of other commits going on. The commit was not in the first couple of merges to the live branch.

Answer 1

git show <commit_hash> will give you details about the commit.

Do this

git rev-list <commit_hash>..<branch> --first-parent

git rev-list <commit_hash>..<branch> --ancestry-path

The last row in common will be the commit hash you’re looking for.

You can store them both in a separate file and then do sdiff to quickly identify it.