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How to find the first commit in a Git branch?
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first_commit_in_branch.md 
$ git log <source_branch>..<feature_branch> --oneline | tail -1

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HaleTom commented Oct 12, 2018

You could also use --reverse and then head -n1 for pathologically long lists.

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