From: Jeff Whiteside <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:52:03 GMT
Subject: get upstream branch
Message-ID: <3ab397d0812082052j6a45d05dr1c863aa260826f4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Does anyone know how to programmatically get the upstream/parent
branch of a branch?  I'm trying to write a gui, but looking at gitk's
tcl code isn't helping me much.

Thanks,

Whiteside