From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit
Message-ID: <20061111192321.GJ4862@socrates.priv>
In-Reply-To: <7virhlken0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:43:47AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "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 ;-).