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Re: How to find the parent of any random branch


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: How to find the parent of any random branch
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:40:04 -0400 (EDT)

Charles V. Rossi writes:
> 
> If I'm sitting in a checked out branch how can I find
> who I was branched from (HEAD vs. some other branch)?
> 
> I might be able to figure it out from 'cvs status <file>',
> but it's painful.

No it isn't, it's trivial: the "Sticky Tag" tells you what branch, if
any, you checked out.  (If you use status -v, you can even find the
branch tag for the branch easily.)

-Larry Jones

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. -- Calvin



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