Re: Finding the name of the parent branch?

From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2009, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0901300646h39e27f50pdb6510083284cf8a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a2633edd0901300606ub4c507bocccb6747b436f01f@mail.gmail.com>

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

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>> At least part of. You have to understand the branch model:
>>
>> git model:
>>  * a branch is just a pointer to a commit
>>  * you cannot say "this commit was done in that branch"
>>  * what you can say is "this commit is contained in that branch"
>
> The second point wasn't clear to me.

A practical example:

$ git clone path/to/project.git $ cd project $ git checkout -b bugfix-1234 origin/master $ # hack, hack, hack $ git commit -a -m "Fix for the Bug #1234" $ git push origin HEAD:master

So, you've done a commit in a local branch named bugfix-1234 and once you push it to the master branch in origin there is nothing to tell you so. A commit is defined with the current state, the old commit(s) and some metadata (author and committer) but nothing about which branch it was made, and as a branch is a pointer to a commit there is nothing more.

Santi