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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How can i find the origin of a branch?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:48:21 +0200
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2009/6/15 Kristian Amlie <kristian.amlie@nokia.com>:
> ext Dotan Barak wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to find the origin of a branch?
>> (the remote repository that this branch was cloned and checked out from)
>
> git config -l
>
> Assuming you're on the master branch, branch.master.remote and
> branch.master.merge will tell you which remote and which branch you are
> tracking. Assuming that the remote is origin, you can check
> remote.origin.url to see the URL of the repo.

Except when it is just happen to have the same name.
IOW, it is a BIG oversimplification.