Re: Ask for feature on git

From: Simon Richter <simon.richter@hogyros.de>
Date: Sep 3, 2024, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <45a51124-7249-4678-a723-4ab9f82a5f2e@hogyros.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAEO06G+SLu-LAe0mkR3ZbaL0MZpBm9PhntQjF-YwVPMtnuH=rQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 9/3/24 17:18, Loredana Tralli wrote:

> Is it possible to have a git command to find out which is the parent branch?

You can ask for the "upstream" branch of a given branch, using the "@{upstream}" syntax, that is documented briefly in the git-rev-parse(1) manual page.

The upstream branch is automatically set if you check out a branch name that only exists in a remote repository but not locally (then, a local branch is created), or explicitly set with "git branch --set-upstream-to".

    Simon