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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:57:45 -0500
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Johan Herland wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net> wrote:
> > Whatsmore, tracking down which branch a commit pertains to is still rather
> > difficult using this approach.  You can go back through the history and
> > find "Merge branch 'pacman-minigame'", but how do you know which commit was
> > the *start* of that branch, if they are not tagged with the branch name?
> 
> Once you have found the merge commit (M), git log M^1..M^2 should list
> all the commits that were made on that branch. The parent of the last
> in that list can be considered the starting point for the branch.

It's not that easy. There has been a lot of discussion in the mailing list and
StackOverflow of ways to do this [1]. The conclusion, at least for me, is that
there's no way to find that out, so it has to be recorded.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198587

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Felipe Contreras