Hi,
When discussing git vs. mercurial, and what can mercurial do that git
can't, I inevitably see somebody mention that mercurial branches can
be used to find the branch point (the point at which a branch started;
even if it's a long-lived one that has been merged to 'master'
multiple times).
There have been a few solutions in stackoverflow[1], but none that
work in all cases.
But I think I've found an ad-hoc one that uses the commit messages to
find the first merge of a branch, and then the merge-base.
For reference, if somebody is interested:
---
[alias]
branch-point = !sh -c 'merge=$(git rev-list --min-parents=2
--grep="Merge.*$1" --all | tail -1) && git merge-base $merge^1
$merge^2'
---
Cheers.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1527234/finding-a-branch-point-with-git/
--
Felipe Contreras
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