Git: Find the most recent common ancestor of two branches

Question

How to find the most recent common ancestor of two Git branches?

Answer 1

The command, git merge-base will work like a charm in this case:

$ git merge-base featureBranch developBranch

Additional info: If featureBranch is your current branch, you can use use '--fork-point' as shown below:

$ git merge-base --fork-point develop

Also, for full commit info you can use this command:

$ git log -1 $(git merge-base --fork-point develop)