Re: Getting a branch's time of creation

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2010, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <86wrxakiyj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <27933166.post@talk.nabble.com>

>>>>> "jateeq" == jateeq  <jawad_atiq@hotmail.com> writes:

jateeq> I am trying to find the time at which a remote branch was created, so jateeq> that I can use the '--since' option in git log to limit the commits to jateeq> only ones that were created for that branch (read below to see why I jateeq> can't use 'git log <branchnname>). So my question: does git remember jateeq> the time at which a branch was created, and how can it be listed?

You're probably looking for the commit at the common ancestor of a given branch (which is a point, not a line, remember) and a branch you're interested in, like maybe "master".

consider something like:

git log $(git merge-base origin/somebranch origin/master)..origin/master

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