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Find the starting point of a local branch

From
WWWoody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 24, 2012, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20121224035825.GA17203@zuhnb712>
Hi, list

How can I find out what's the staring reference point (a commit number or tag name) of a locally created branch? I can use gitk to find out it but this method is slow, I think there might be a command line to do it quickly.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
woody
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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