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I'm trying to identify all the tags that contains a specific commit. Using git command tools, this can be done through:

git tag --contains <commit>

However, I need to do this for several repositories so I was expecting on relying on the REST API. Is there a way to gather the same information through GitHub's REST API?

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I found this answer on a related question to give me what I needed.

You would first get a list of tags for your repo:

https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/tags

Then, for each tag, you would compare the branch with the SHA: 

https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/compare/:tagName...:sha_of_commit

If the value of the status attribute in the response is diverged or ahead, then the commit is not contained in the tag. If the value of the status attribute is behind or identical, then the commit is contained in the tag.

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