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Jiraiya
Jiraiya

Reputation: 69

How to list branches that contain another branch in git

Can someone explain/provide an example of how to list branches that contains another branch in git?

can I use the contain attribute?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1662

Answers (2)

Mureinik
Mureinik

Reputation: 312219

A branch name is just a fancy pointer to a given commit (in other words, it's a commitish), so you can look for branches that contain it with the --contains option:

$ git branch --contains my_branch

And if you want to check remote branches as well, you can add the -r flag:

$ git branch -r --contains my_branch

Upvotes: 9

eftshift0
eftshift0

Reputation: 30317

Sounds like you want to know about git branch --contains whatever-branch. Use -r if you want to check remote branches as well.

Upvotes: 1

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