How to find the nearest parent of a Git branch?

Question

Let\'s say I have the following local repository with a commit tree like this:

master --> a
            \\
             \\
      develop c --> d
               


        

Answer 1

I'm not saying this is a good way to solve this problem, however this does seem to work-for-me.

git branch --contains $(cat .git/ORIG_HEAD) The issue being that cat'ing a file is peeking into the inner working of git so this is not necessarily forwards-compatible (or backwards-compatible).