From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: keeping track of where a patch begins
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910211402490.21460@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <3a69fa7c0910210745r311cf18xf966f5c63650cde6@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, E R wrote:

> What solutions have you come up with to either to catch or prevent
> this from happening? It is possible to determine what node a branch
> started from?

This can be determined by looking at the gitk output.

Also 'git merge-base' can give you that node, given the main branch and 
the topic branch.  See documentation about git-merge-base.

Then if you need to move a branch to another starting node, then 'git 
rebase' is what you need (again the git-rebase documentation is pretty 
detailed).


Nicolas