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Albert
Albert

Reputation: 2664

Forking a branch from another branch in git

I know this question has already been asked here but I'm just having some weird problem that I would like to solve with your help.

So I've got a branch named feature-kernel that I would like to fork from and I want to create feature-new-feature. So here's what I did while staying on some third branch:

Then I checked my bitbucket and in Branches it shows that the parent branch of the feature-new-feature branch is master.

How is this possible? What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 538

Answers (2)

Frax
Frax

Reputation: 5855

Branches in git are just pointers to commits. There is no trace left of how given branch was created (well, maybe sometimes in local reflog, but it's unreliable and never pushed). So from git's point of view feature-new-feature and feature-kernel are two identical branches, only difference being name.

The Bitbucket visualization shows the current relation in (commits) history, but then it has to show feature-new-feature and feature-kernel in just the same way, as stemming from the branch somewhere behind them - in that case, master.

I also think that the branch shown in branch view as parent branch is always either main branch (master) or the branch you create a pull request to, and not just "whatever branch is closest". To see real relation between branches, use commits view (in Bitbucket), or gitk, or equivalent.

Upvotes: 2

gzh
gzh

Reputation: 3596

If you did NOT do any change to your new branch feature-new-feature after branching from feature-kernel, i.e. branch feature-kernel and branch feature-new-feature are the same, git will see these two branch as the same one, and they will share the same parent branch. If feature-kernel is branched from master branch, you will see feature-new-feature branched from master branch too.

Upvotes: 1

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