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Re: check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit

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Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date
Nov 11, 2006, 19:23 UTC
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<20061111192321.GJ4862@socrates.priv>
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:43:47AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I want to create "git-amend-commit" to be able to amend commits before
> > HEAD. So I need to check whether the commit I'm going to amend is
> > ascendent of HEAD. Is there any way to check that?
> 
> Ascendant is a word from astorology -- you mean ancestor ;-).
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  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 11, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 11, 2006
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 11, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2006
  5. Tom PrinceNov 11, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 11, 2006
  8. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006

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