Finding what branch a Git commit came from

Question

Is there a way to find out what branch a commit comes from given its SHA-1 hash value?

Bonus points if you can tell me how to accomplish this using Ruby Grit.

Answer 1

I deal with the same problem (Jenkins multibranch pipeline) - having only commit information and trying to find a branch name where this commit originally came from. It must work for remote branches, local copies are not available.

This is what I work with:

git rev-parse HEAD | xargs git name-rev

Optionally you can strip the output:

git rev-parse HEAD | xargs git name-rev | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed 's/remotes\/origin\///g'