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From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jared Murrell <primetheus@github.com>
Subject: Find commit that referenced a blob first
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:02:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C00CED1F-D685-40E5-A5CC-4040BFD82886@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I have a blob hash and I would like to know what commit referenced 
this blob first in a given Git repo.

I could iterate through all commits sorted by date (or generation 
number) and then recursively search in the referenced trees until 
I find my blob. I wonder, is this the most efficient way to solve 
my problem? Is there some trick/existing Git command that would 
perform this search more efficiently for large repos?

Thank you,
Lars

             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-19 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-19 21:02 Lars Schneider [this message]
2018-07-19 21:19 ` Find commit that referenced a blob first Stefan Beller
2018-07-19 21:45   ` Lars Schneider
2018-07-19 21:47   ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 22:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-19 22:45     ` Stefan Beller

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