On 2009.02.28 19:50:08 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > 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? "git svn info" tells you, besides other things, the URL your checked out branch is based upon WRT svn. Use it with "--url" to show only the URL. > ...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? If you use git-svn, it's actually meaningful, because it controls what svn rebase and svn dcommit do. For a pure git repo, it's usually not that interesting. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
