Azure DevOps REST Api: Does git commit exists in branch?

Question

I have a commit id and need to check in which branch(es) the commits contains. I've tried some approaches, but no one fits...

My best idea was:

var existsInBranch = (await gitClient.GetCommitsAsync(projectId, repositoryId, new GitQueryCommitsCriteria
{
    Ids = new List<string>
    {
        commits[0].CommitId
    },
    CompareVersion = new GitVersionDescriptor()
    {
        VersionType = GitVersionType.Branch,
        VersionOptions = GitVersionOptions.None,
        Version = "main"
    }
})).Any();

But this will end with an exception: The value specified for the following variable must be null: compareVersion..

Are there some other ways to get the information? The Azure DevOps UI has this feature:

Answer 1

The feature: "Search for commit in branches and tags" exists in the preview features. Based on my test（check with backend API in Browser）, I am afraid there is no direct way to achieve this function outside the UI interface

Are there some other ways to get the information?

Of course. I would like to share two methods:

1.You could use PowerShell to Run the RestApis and compare the result:

Refs - List

Commits - Get Commits

Here is a PowerShell script example:

$token = "PAT"

$url="https://dev.azure.com/{OrganizationName}/_apis/git/repositories/{RepoId}/refs?api-version=6.0"

$token = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($token)"))
$id= "commitid"

$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Headers @{Authorization = "Basic $token"} -Method Get  -ContentType application/json

ForEach($Branch in $response.value.name)
{
  
   $Branch -match "refs/heads/(?<content>.*)"


   $BranchName = $matches['content']

   echo $BranchName

   $url1= "https://dev.azure.com/{OrganizationName}/{ProjectNAME}/_apis/git/repositories/{RepoID}/commits?searchCriteria.itemVersion.version=$($BranchName)&api-version=6.0"

   $response2 = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url1 -Headers @{Authorization = "Basic $token"} -Method Get  -ContentType application/json


    
   if ($response2.value.commitid.contains($id))

   {
     echo "$BranchName contains the commit"

   }
   else
   {
     echo "$BranchName doesn't contains the commit"
   
   }


}

Result:

2.You could use git command to check if the branch contain the commits.

git clone --mirror GitURL

git branch --contains Commitid

Result: