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# View Package Ancestry

Use Salesforce CLI commands to quickly confirm your package’s ancestor, or to create a visualization of the package ancestry tree.

## View Package Ancestor Details in Salesforce CLI

Use the `sf package version report` or `sf package version list` command to view the name and version number of the package ancestor.

Output from `sf package version report` command.

![Output from package:version:list command](https://developer.salesforce.com/media/pkg2_dev/sfdx_packaging_cli_report.png)

Output from `sf package version list` command.

![Output from package:version:report command](https://developer.salesforce.com/media/pkg2_dev/sfdx_packaging_cli_list.png)

## Visualize Package Ancestry

Use the `displayancestry` CLI command to create visualizations of your package or package version’s ancestry tree. You can view the visualization in Salesforce CLI or use the dot-code parameter to generate output that can be used in graph visualization software.

Use `sf package version displayancestry` to quickly visualize your package ancestry and understand the possible package upgrade paths.

![Graphic tree visualization for package:version:create](https://developer.salesforce.com/media/pkg2_dev/sfdx_packaging_ancestry.png)

![Graphic tree visualization for package:create](https://developer.salesforce.com/media/pkg2_dev/sfdx_packaging_package_version_ancestry.png)

To generate dotcode output, specify `sf package version displayancestry --dot-code`.