From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:35:18 GMT
Subject: Re: is there a way to reference the branch point?
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001291435p59599f62hd54cbca66d91c24b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18219.1264804157@relay.known.net>

Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 23:29, layer <layer@known.net> wrote:
> If I make a branch `foo' off master, commit a bunch of times, is there
> a way to reference the place on master from which I branched?

Depends, if you make a new branch from master, you can use 'git merge-base', so:

$ # on master
$ git checkout -b foo-topic-branch
$ # work work
$ git commit
$ # work work
$ git commit

Now you want to know where you branches off from master:

$ git merge-base foo-topic-branch master

That will show you the commit you branches off from, even if master
has grown new commits since then.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier