Re: Tracking parent branches in Git

2019-07-01 Thread Eric Kulcyk
ay to store this data locally? For instance, a wrapper around git checkout could record the branch. However, you would be unable to use vanilla git check out if you want to do rely upon the data. From: Eric Kulcyk Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 1:58 PM To: Eckhard Maaß; Bryan Turner Cc: g

Re: Tracking parent branches in Git

2019-07-01 Thread Eric Kulcyk
ead of doing this in > core git because of the transient nature of the relationship between a branch > and a commit. Multiple branches can have the same commit, but only one branch can be checked out at once, right? Then the parent branch would be the branch you were on when you ran checkout -b

Tracking parent branches in Git

2019-07-01 Thread Eric Kulcyk
Hello, We would like to track parent branches so that creating pull requests can automatically determine the correct branch to merge against. I understand that this would require tracking more information than is currently available right now in git. Also, it seems that if some cases, it is n