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Created July 3, 2014 09:58
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Find the parent branch of the current branch
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findParent.sh
current_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
git show-branch -a | grep '*' | grep -v $current_branch | head -n1 | sed 's/.*\[\(.*\)\].*/\1/' | sed 's/[\^~].*//'
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drkvogel commented Apr 8, 2021

Just in case anyone else finds this, I wondered how 2>nul worked - it should 2>/dev/null; 2>nul creates a file called nul!

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