How to list branches that contain a given commit?

Question

How can I query git to find out which branches contain a given commit? gitk will usually list the branches, unless there are too many, in which case it just say

Answer 1

You may run:

git log ..HEAD --ancestry-path --merges

From comment of last commit in the output you may find original branch name

Example:

       c---e---g--- feature
      /         \
-a---b---d---f---h---j--- master

git log e..master --ancestry-path --merges

commit h
Merge: g f
Author: Eugen Konkov <>
Date:   Sat Oct 1 00:54:18 2016 +0300

    Merge branch 'feature' into master