How to know the name of the branch from where actual branch is created?

Question

In git how to find the name of the branch from which my actual branch created? Example: I created my development branch(dev-feature) from integration branch(dev-int). How to trace the integration from feature branch?

Answer 1

You can't.

You branch off from a commit , not from a branch. Branch is just a temporary tag that moves with commits while active.

Say there's a commit 0123456 where you have branch A and B. You make branch C. Which branch did you branch off of? The real answer is "neither" - you branched off from 0123456.

Also, branches don't remember where they started; the only thing you can do is trace the history back, and find where that history attached to the history of another branch. For example, to see where exactly def-feature history meets dev-int history,

git merge-base def-feature dev-int