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

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PGPaul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Date
Mar 22, 2008, 12:12 UTC
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Avery Pennarun wrote:
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> Alternatively, we could avoid tracking anything extra at all.  If git
> could suggest a branch or tag that mine is "currently closest to",
> ie., the one that has as many of the commits from my branch as
> possible (even if it has additional commits that I don't have), then
> that might be the branch I'm interested in.

Yes, that's exactly what I need too. I need to produce it programatically. I notice gitk displays, for each commit, the branches that include it. If I knew a command for deriving that, I could iterate through HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2... until I see a remote branch.

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  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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