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Created November 21, 2013 21:44
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Given a commit, find immediate children of that commit.
#!/bin/bash -e
# given a commit, find immediate children of that commit.
for arg in "$@"; do
for commit in $(git rev-parse $arg^0); do
for child in $(git log --format='%H %P' --all | grep -F " $commit" | cut -f1 -d' '); do
git describe $child
done
done
done
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kvudata commented Jan 17, 2018

Doesn't seem to work for me, I just get a "fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything."
I'm running git version 2.13.5 (Apple Git-94)

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sukima commented Jan 11, 2019

@kvudata You need to provide one or more arguments to the command:

$ git children-of bada55commitish
$ git children-of bada55commitish | xargs git show

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