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Created July 11, 2013 19:09
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Find the first few branches that contain the specified commit
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# Find the pull request that introduced a given commit
COMMIT=c78f9ef # just an example commit id
# This will list the first few branches that contain this commit (including only "pull request" branches)
git branch -r --contains $COMMIT |grep "origin/pr" |sort |head
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jasisk commented Jul 17, 2013

Don't forget, you can use the :/words syntax to find a commit by commit message. E.g.,

git branch -r --contains :/CMGRS-911 | grep "origin/pr" | sort | head

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jasisk commented Jul 17, 2013

Also, you need to have this set up.

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