G'day.
I recently got asked a question about git-svn that I had no idea how to
answer, and which I am actually curious to know how to find out.
The general question was: in git, how do I identify where this branch
came from?
Specifically, this was about 'git svn', but also generally how to
identify this information in git.
So, with a repository branch layout like this:
master (local)
testing (local)
trunk (remote)
v100 (remote)
How would I find out which remote branch master and trunk came from?
To restate that, because I am not sure if that is clear, given this
layout of branches:
trunk (remote)
|
o---o---o---o---o branch master
\
\
o---o---o---o branch testing
|
v100 (remote)
How can I identify that 'testing' came from the 'v100' branch, and that
master came from the 'trunk' branch?
Ideally, I would like to work this out on the command line, without
needing to reference gitk or another graphical tool, but even a solution
that used them would be fine.
Initially I figured there would be some equivalent of the Mercurial
'glog' output available, showing this; for reference the second and
third examples here are what I was envisaging:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/GraphlogExtension
(from that display I could infer where testing and master came from,
rather than directly getting the answer, but that is just fine.)
...and, finally, is the reason that I am finding it hard to explain this
because I have an expectation of how things work that doesn't match up
with git? In other words, is the question actually meaningless?
Regards,
Daniel
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