From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, osronline@glidos.net
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:12:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E4F7A0.6060702@glidos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130803211039h1f5b8da5k8fb353d46e57b05e@mail.gmail.com>
Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Alternatively, we could avoid tracking anything extra at all. If git
> could suggest a branch or tag that mine is "currently closest to",
> ie., the one that has as many of the commits from my branch as
> possible (even if it has additional commits that I don't have), then
> that might be the branch I'm interested in.
Yes, that's exactly what I need too. I need to produce it
programatically. I notice gitk displays, for each commit,
the branches that include it. If I knew a command for
deriving that, I could iterate through HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2...
until I see a remote branch.
P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 9:05 How to find where a branch was taken from Paul Gardiner
2008-03-21 9:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-21 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-21 17:39 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-03-21 18:32 ` Charles Bailey
2008-03-21 18:48 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-03-21 20:03 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-21 20:22 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-21 20:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-22 12:12 ` Paul Gardiner [this message]
2008-03-22 16:41 ` Jeff King
2008-03-22 16:54 ` Paul Gardiner
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