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GIT: Finding Parent Branch |
kamal |
git, tips |
When you create a branch in git, using command such as:-
git checkout -b branch1
Git will create the new branch based on our current branch, usually the master branch. But it possible at the time we created the branch, we're not on master branch. So to figure out what is the branch origin/parent, we can use this command:-
current_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
git show-branch -a | awk -F'[]^~[]' '/\*/ && !/'"$current_branch"'/ {print $2;exit}'
Reference - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3161204/find-the-parent-branch-of-a-git-branch