Re: Finding the name of the parent branch?

From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2009, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0901300318s5a0e4c94gab5f31342643ea52@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a2633edd0901300256k2ad7530elcaca5cdc30c17534@mail.gmail.com>

2009/1/30 Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>:

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> I want to find the name of the parent branch in a script. What is the best way?
>
>                         o---o---o---C
>                         /
>                    o---o---o---B
>                   /
>           ---o---o---o---o---o---A
>
> For B I want to get A and for C I want to get B.

I think your definition is not well defined. A, B and C are just branches of you project, technically they are equivalent. Maybe you are thinking that the common commits of, say A and B, really belongs to A, but this is not the case they belong to both branches. In git a branch is really just a pointer to a commit and by extension the history, it is not a series of commits.

Just a counterexample, just rearranging you graph:

                        o---B
                        /
                   o---o---o---o---o---C
                  /
          ---o---o---o---o---o---A

>From you description: For B I would get C and for C I would get A.

HTH, Santi