How to know branches that contains commit in SublimeMerge?

[BPL]

Hi, I’d like to know what’s the “idiomatic way” to know the branch(es) that contains the commit I’m on, ie:

git branch --contains <commit_hash> -a or git tag --contains <commit_hash>, is there any shortcut to figure out that type of information?

Or asked differently, let’s say I’ve found a commit after using the search dialog… how do i know which branch owns this commit straightaway so i can create a local branch? (I don’t mean create a local branch from that particular commit but for the particular branch that contains it)

Thanks in advance

[OdatNurd]

I think you hit the nail on the head in your own question; if you want to know what branch contains a commit, you need to ask git to trace the graph using the command that you outlined above. I’m not aware of anything in Merge that would do it for you otherwise.

The quickest way to do so would be to add an item for it to the context menu; an example of how to do that is linked below. You should also be able to bind the command to a key as well, though $commit expands out to the commit hash 000000 if you don’t have a commit selected.

The second linked post covers the same thing, but includes a screenshot that shows where you can see the output, in case you’re not already familiar with that.

Display branch name in history view

As far as I’m aware, with regards to branch names and the commit graph the names of branches are only displayed at their head commit, both in the graph and in the pane on the right in the commit details when you select that commit. Apart from the head commit, I don’t think git contains any information as to what branch a commit originally came from? Or if you will, if I create branch new-branch, make 4 commits, merge that branch back with master and then delete new-branch, I don’t think there i…

Stash drop and custom commands (terminal) request

That is also possible, though you have to decide in advance what the commands will be. Or if you will, you can create a command palette entry (or menu item or key binding) that executes git with any arguments you want to provide, but you can’t interactively edit the arguments, at least as far as I’m aware. For example, the context menu item above labeled Show Branches containing this commit... is one that I added myself. As an example, you can use Preferences > Browse Packages in Merge (just a…

[josephtlyons]

Here’s an alternative solution for finding the branches that a commit belongs to, given to me by a Sublime team member:

A few miscellaneous questions (Merge)

Hi @josephtlyons, Thanks for using Sublime Merge - we’re glad you’re enjoying the new update! Currently we don’t have any specific functionality to indicate which branches a certain commit is part of. I’ll definitely be sharing this idea with the team. In the meantime, you can use a custom command to achieve this: Open the user packages folder: Preferences > Browse Packages… then navigate to the User directory Create a file named Commit.sublime-menu Add the following [ { "caption": "…

[josephtlyons]

Oops, didn’t realize that @OdatNurd’s reply had essentially the same thing. My bad.