Identifying the branch a clone was cloned from

jateeq· Mar 2, 2010, 21:45 UTC · lore

Hey guys,

I have a repository with over 10 branches. I clone from branch 2, and some time after the operation I need to find out what branch in the remote I cloned from. Anyone know the command for that?

Thank you, Jawad.

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Santi Béjar· Mar 2, 2010, 23:15 UTC · re: jateeq · lore

Re: Identifying the branch a clone was cloned from

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:45 PM, jateeq <jawad_atiq@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey guys,
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> I have a repository with over 10 branches. I clone from branch 2, and some
> time after the operation I need to find out what branch in the remote I
> cloned from. Anyone know the command for that?

If you mean from which branch you forked a given branch it is specified in the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge + some logic. To get it you can use the branchname@{upstream} syntax (new in 1.7.0) or use this command:

git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream)' refs/heads/branchname

But maybe we can help more if you say what you want to accomplish with this information and not this specific detail.

HTH, Santi