Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

Johan Herland wrote:

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Whatsmore, tracking down which branch a commit pertains to is still rather
difficult using this approach.  You can go back through the history and
find "Merge branch 'pacman-minigame'", but how do you know which commit was
the *start* of that branch, if they are not tagged with the branch name?

Once you have found the merge commit (M), git log M^1..M^2 should list
all the commits that were made on that branch. The parent of the last
in that list can be considered the starting point for the branch.

It's not that easy. There has been a lot of discussion in the mailing list and
StackOverflow of ways to do this [1]. The conclusion, at least for me, is that
there's no way to find that out, so it has to be recorded.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198587

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Felipe Contreras