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

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2008, 20:03 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>  "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.

Dmitry
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Message 7 of 12 in “How to find where a branch was taken from.”
  1. Paul GardinerMar 21, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2008
  4. Avery PennarunMar 21, 2008
  5. Charles BaileyMar 21, 2008
  6. Avery PennarunMar 21, 2008
  7. Dmitry PotapovMar 21, 2008
  8. Daniel BarkalowMar 21, 2008
  9. J. Bruce FieldsMar 21, 2008
  10. Paul GardinerMar 22, 2008
  11. Jeff KingMar 22, 2008
  12. Paul GardinerMar 22, 2008

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