From: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:04:03 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I show only log messages for commits on a specific branch?
Message-ID: <1cd1989b0912170704m4b95849agf2baaa131a1bff7c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091216101647.GB27373@bc-bd.org>

> So how do I:
>
>        git please-tell-me-the-branch-I-started-this-branch-from new
>

You may also be interested in the git show-branch command.  The output
may be unintuitive at first but once you grok it it's pretty useful...
especially if you have several branches.

Aside from the man page, here's a blog post the describes the output:
https://wincent.com/wiki/Understanding_the_output_of_%22git_show-branch%22

~ Pat