Re: Best method of detecting if list of commit refs is a parent

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> If you have bunch of commits A B C D E F and if you would want to know
> which one of them is reachable from X, you could of course run merge- 
> base
> once for each of A..F.  Another way to do this would be to run:
>
> 	git rev-list A B C D E F ^X
>
> and look at the output.  The ones among A..F that appear in the  
> output are
> not reachable from X.  The ones that are reachable from X do not  
> appear in
> the output.
>
> This is because "rev-list" outputs everything reachable from the given
> commits without ^ prefix, excluding the ones that are reacahble from  
> the
> ones prefixed with ^.