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

["John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com>]

=== Re: ===
What I'm beginning to suspect is that all the commits that should have
gone to master went to some unnamed branch.
Is that reasonable/possible/likely?  This commit has a full ancestry,
but doesn't appear to be on any branch.
=== end===

Both gitk (comes with git) and QGit showthe branches on the GUI when you highlight the commit of interest.

As for recovering lost commits, I've been down that road, and using fsck or worse yet looking at all the files in the objects directory is no fun.  The 'reflog' is your friend!  Use reflog to spot which one is interesting, and then use something like
                git tag here HEAD@{5}
and then bring up gitk with "all branches" and sort it out.

--John
(please excuse the footer; it's not my idea)

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