Paul Gardiner <osronline@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I need a command that will find the remote branch from which
> the currently checked out branch was started. I don't know
> git very well, and the only way I can think to do it so far
> is to iterate over the remote branches and find the one
> for which git-rev-list <branch>..HEAD gives the smallest
> number of objects. I'm guessing there must be a better
> way. Any ideas?
There will be _no_ way. It is simply impossible.
$ git checkout -b my-new-branch origin/somerandombranch~27^2^2~23
is a perfectly valid way to create a new branch.
You would probably want to re-think in a bigger picture, _why_
you would want to find such information, in other words, how you would
want to use the information (if such a thing were possible) to solve
_what_ problem. That true problem you did not mention (and assumed that
"the remote branch the branch was branched from" would be a good tool to
solve it) might have a better solution.
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