Front-end release.NEXT

[Justin Whear]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:35:04 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:43:44PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> One of these days I'll have to research a little more how to more easily
> identify the merge commit that pulled in a particular commit. Since all
> commits only refer to their ancestors, git has no easy way of following
> the chain downstream to the merge point (at least, none that I know of).
> If anyone knows some git-fu to do this, I'd be very much obliged. :)
> 
> 
> T

I think you can find the merge which introduced the commit with something 
like this:

git log <commit hash>..master --merges --ancestry-path

Though that includes subsequent merges; I think you just want the last 
one.