How can I see what branch another branch was forked from?

Question

My git repository has three branches, devel, stable and customers/acme_patches. A long time ago, stable was forked from <

Answer 1

Not sure if it covers all cases, but here's the functions that I came up with:

git_branch_contains() {
    local b=$1
    local c=$2
    IFS_=$IFS
    IFS=$'\n'
    local branches=($(git branch --contains "$c" | sed -E 's/^(\*| ) //'))
    IFS=$IFS_
    for b2 in "${branches[@]:+${branches[@]}}"; do
        if [ "$b2" = "$b" ]; then
            return 0
        fi
    done
    return 1
}

git_upstream_branch() {
    local b=$1
    local c1=$(git merge-base --fork-point master "$b") || local c1=
    local c2=$(git merge-base --fork-point dev "$b") || local c2=
    if ! [ "$c1" ]; then
        echo dev
        return
    fi
    if ! [ "$c2" ]; then
        echo master
        return
    fi
    local fp
    if git merge-base --is-ancestor "$c1" "$c2"; then
        fp=$c2
    else
        fp=$c1
    fi
    if git_branch_contains master "$fp" && ! git_branch_contains dev "$fp"; then
        echo master
    else
        echo dev
    fi
}

And here's the script to test them (git-upstream-branch-test.sh):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu

. git-upstream-branch.sh

git_commit() {
    if ! [ "${commit_i:-}" ]; then
        commit_i=0
    fi
    (( commit_i++ )) || true
    echo "$commit_i" > "$commit_i"
    git add "$commit_i"
    git commit -qm "c$commit_i"
}

git_merge() {
    if ! [ "${merge_i:-}" ]; then
        merge_i=0
    fi
    (( merge_i++ )) || true
    git merge -m "$merge_i" $1
}

A_TOPOLOGY=${1:-}

mkdir git-upstream-branch-test-repo
cd git-upstream-branch-test-repo
git init -q
if [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 10 ]; then
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -qb dev
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git_commit
    git_commit
    c=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q dev
    git checkout -qb t1
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q dev
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git rebase --onto "$c" dev t1
elif [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 11 ]; then
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -qb dev
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q dev
    c=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git checkout -qb t1
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git rebase --onto "$c" master t1
else
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -qb dev
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git_commit
    git_commit
    if [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 4 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 5 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 6 ]; then
        git_merge dev
        git_commit
        git_commit
        git checkout -q dev
        git_commit
        git_commit
        git checkout -q master
    elif [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 7 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 8 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 9 ]; then
        git checkout -q dev
        git_merge master
        git_commit
        git_commit
        git checkout -q master
        git_commit
        git_commit
    fi
    git checkout -qb t1
    git_commit
    git_commit
    git checkout -q master
    git_commit
    git_commit
    if [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 2 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 5 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 8 ]; then
        git_merge dev
    elif [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 3 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 6 ] || [ "$A_TOPOLOGY" = 9 ]; then
        git checkout -q dev
        git_merge master
    fi
fi
git --no-pager log --oneline --graph --decorate --all
git_upstream_branch t1

Use it like so,

$ rm -rf git-upstream-branch-test-repo && ./git-upstream-branch-test.sh NUMBER

Where NUMBER is a number from 1 to 11 to specify which case (topology) to test.