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From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Subject: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:05:39 +0000
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I need a command that will find the remote branch from which
the currently checked out branch was started. I don't know
git very well, and the only way I can think to do it so far
is to iterate over the remote branches and find the one
for which git-rev-list <branch>..HEAD gives the smallest
number of objects. I'm guessing there must be a better
way. Any ideas?

Cheers,
	Paul.