How do you find who merged a git commit into a branch?

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Marc O'Morain picture Marc O'Morain · May 14, 2012 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

There is a file in our git repository in work, I want to find out who merged this file into a branch.

I have the commit hash that identifies the commit (lets say 552a976f1a25f9bad57efb9455e951f6b7b3367f) that introduced the file, and I know that the file is on the branch staging.

How can I find the hash of the commit that merged the commit above into the staging branch? I want to find the user who merged, and the date of the merge.

Answer

Vincent B. picture Vincent B. · May 15, 2012

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If I understand you correctly, you have C5, and you are searching for C6. If it's the case, you are probably looking for this:

git rev-list --merges HEAD --not <hash> --reverse

It will give you the list of merge commits which happened after your hash commit. I use HEAD in this command believing that you are be on master, in the example, or staging in your situation.

In a not-too-complex environment you are probably looking for the first merge which happened after your commit... But if you have not this kind of chance, You can try:

git log --graph --decorate HEAD...<hash>^

Or any graphic tool to explore your history (such as gitk)...

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