How to determine when a Git branch was created?

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paxos1977 picture paxos1977 · Feb 12, 2010 · Viewed 253.2k times · Source

Is there a way to determine when a Git branch was created? I have a branch in my repo and and I don't remember creating it and thought maybe seeing the creation timestamp would jog my memory.

Answer

Greg Bacon picture Greg Bacon · Feb 12, 2010

Use

git show --summary `git merge-base foo master`

If you’d rather see it in context using gitk, then use

gitk --all --select-commit=`git merge-base foo master`

(where foo is the name of the branch you are looking for.)

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