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From: Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com>
Subject: Find the starting point of a local branch
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Hi, list

How can I find out what's the staring reference point (a commit number
or tag name) of a locally created branch? I can use gitk to find out it
but this method is slow, I think there might be a command line to do it
quickly.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
woody
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.