Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  "git show-branch" has logic very close to what we need here: if you
> > >  give it the names of your current branch and its parent, it'll show
> > >  you just the changes on both branches since the branchpoint.  But I
> > >  don't really want to know about additional changes on the parent, only
> > >  on the branch I'm working with, and I often prefer the output to be in
> > >  git-log's (very flexible) format instead of git-show-branch.
> > 
> > I believe that
> > 
> >    git log parent-branch..local-branch
> > 
> > should give you exactly what you want, i.e. all changes on your local
> > branch since it was copied from the parent branch.
> 
> Then you need to remember what the parent branch was. But:
> 
>   git log local-branch ^maybe-parent-1 ^maybe-parent-2 ...
> 
> should give you what you want.