How to list branches that contain a given commit

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How can I query git to find out which branches contain a given commit  gitk will usually list the branches  unless there are too many  in which case it just says  many  38   or something like that  I need to know the full list  or at least whether certain branches contain the commit

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You may run   git log  lt SHA1 gt   HEAD --ancestry-path --merges   From comment of last commit in the output you may find original branch name  Example          c---e---g--- feature                   -a---b---d---f---h---j--- master  git log e  master --ancestry-path --merges  commit h Merge  g f Author  Eugen Konkov  lt  gt  Date    Sat Oct 1 00 54 18 2016  0300      Merge branch  feature  into master

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From the git-branch manual page   git branch --contains  lt commit gt    Only list branches which contain the specified commit  HEAD if not specified   Implies --list     git branch -r --contains  lt commit gt   Lists remote tracking branches as well  as mentioned in user3941992 s answer below  that is  quot local branches that have a direct relationship to a remote branch quot    As noted by Carl Walsh  this applies only to the default refspec fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    If you need to include other ref namespace  pull request  Gerrit        you need to add that new refspec  and fetch again  git config --add remote origin fetch  quot  refs pull   head refs remotes origin pr   quot  git fetch git branch -r --contains  lt commit gt    See also this git ready article   The --contains tag will figure out if a certain commit has been brought in yet into your branch  Perhaps you   ve got a commit SHA from a patch you thought you had applied  or you just want to check if commit for your favorite open source project that reduces memory usage by 75  is in yet     git log -1 tests commit d590f2ac0635ec0053c4a7377bd929943d475297 Author  Nick Quaranto  lt nick quaran to gt  Date    Wed Apr 1 20 38 59 2009 -0400      Green all around  finally     git branch --contains d590f2   tests   master   Note  if the commit is on a remote tracking branch  add the -a option   as MichielB comments below  git branch -a --contains  lt commit gt    MatrixFrog comments that it only shows which branches contain that exact commit  If you want to know which branches contain an  quot equivalent quot  commit  i e  which branches have cherry-picked that commit  that s git cherry   Because git cherry compares the changeset rather than the commit id  sha1   you can use git cherry to find out if a commit you made locally has been applied  lt upstream gt  under a different commit id  For example  this will happen if you   re feeding patches  lt upstream gt  via email rather than pushing or pulling commits directly                             gt   lt upstream gt              fork-point                    -        -      gt   lt head gt    Here  the commits marked  -  wouldn t show up with git cherry  meaning they are already present in  lt upstream gt

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The answer for git branch -r --contains  lt commit gt  works well for normal remote branches  but if the commit is only in the hidden head namespace that GitHub creates for PRs  you ll need a few more steps  Say  if PR  42 was from deleted branch and that PR thread has the only reference to the commit on the repo  git branch -r doesn t know about PR  42 because refs like refs pull 42 head aren t listed as a remote branch by default  In  git config for the  remote  quot origin quot   section add a new line  fetch    refs pull   head refs remotes origin pr     This gist has more context   Then when you git fetch you ll get all the PR branches  and when you run git branch -r --contains  lt commit gt  you ll see origin pr 42 contains the commit

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