Background
I am working on a phing build script, which takes input as the target revision to which the production codebase needs to be taken. I am preparing the same in a separate scratchpad directory and then overwriting the production codebase.
Current logic
- During every build, I am simply emptying the scratchpad and taking a fresh clone of the entire git repository in it.
Taking to the desired revision -
git reset --hard ${target.git_version}
I am sure something more efficient can be done. I was thinking along the lines of -
finding out which one contains the desired commit, as given in https://stackoverflow.com/a/1419637/351903 (tried but could not get it working with
git branch -r --contains <commit>
- looks like I am missing something about the concept of it).once the branch is found, cloning that particular branch only.
Then I thought of -
getting all the branch names only, into my local repository first (if that is possible and makes sense).
then
git branch --contains <commit>
.
Also thought of -
- looping through all the branch names and checking if it contains a commit.