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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: get upstream branch
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:25:09 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Jeff Whiteside wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to programmatically get the upstream/parent
> branch of a branch?  I'm trying to write a gui, but looking at gitk's
> tcl code isn't helping me much.

Would C++ code be a better help?

qgit is somewhat similar to gitk:
http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git

Peter Harris