From: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Git/Magit: To which branch was a commit was originally committed?
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:09:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bl3397tq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgqo2b5q.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:38:57 +0100")
Upon thinking, one cannot answer the question you're asking. This is
because commits do not hold this information; they don't "remember" in
which branch they were. Git history is a graph where commits are nodes.
Branches are labels we stick to specific nodes. When we update, we move
a label forward to another node. That previous node does not "remember"
that a label was used to be attached to it. The answer I gave you a
minute ago only answers the following question: if I start from a given
commit/node and go forward in time, which branches/labels would I meet?
it answers your question only in the simplest cases (no splits) but
hopefully that is what you're looking for.
Best,
--
Daniel Fleischer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-01 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-01 14:38 Git/Magit: To which branch was a commit was originally committed? Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-01 16:01 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-11-01 16:09 ` Daniel Fleischer [this message]
2021-11-01 17:18 ` Sergey Organov
2021-11-01 19:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-02 14:12 ` Sergey Organov
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