observations of facts

Build kept failing for one of the projects that I was trying to compile and I was told that the source branch ( meaning the original branch from where my working branch got created from) just compiles fine. I had this doubt in my mind, is the branch that I'm working on is really branched from of from the same source branch that I was told? How do I figure that out..  I know, gitk right??? But, I want to see if this is possible with git log. And it turns out , its possible with git log   git log --graph --color --decorate --oneline --all And finally I figured I was given a wrong branch to work with - *smile*  

I was under the impression that the '...' thingy would only work  when used from the git command line.. but github.com is no exception. a simple way to compare branches on github: http://github.com/ < reponame > /compare/ < basebranch > ... < deviated branch >