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Re: Questions about branches in git

From
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Jan 29, 2010, 10:06 UTC
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Mike Linck:
> It seems that after a topic or bug branch is merged back into its parent, 
> especially if it was fast forwarded, it becomes hard to determine what 
> changes were made in it, to resolve the problem that it was created to 
> address.

If you keep the branch name somewhere (either pushed to the master repository, or to a side-repository used to store old "dead" branches), then you at least have the pointer to the last commit on that particular branch.

You can then backtrack through the commits to the previous merge-point, or branch head, in the history to find the point where it, most likely, was branched off from.

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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