From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:13:51 GMT
Subject: determine if one commit is an ancestor of another
Message-ID: <20090709171351.GA30088@cthulhu>

Is there any builtin to do this?  I'm doing it in a perl script now by parsing
git log --pretty=raw, but it's pretty slow for a big repository.

    --larry