From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:19:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Message-ID: <20100127101943.GA4470@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <201001270936.14935.elendil@planet.nl>

Frans Pop wrote:

> The use case is a wrapper script for kernel builds in which some variation 
> are needed (due to changes in the build system) when building older 
> kernels, e.g. during bisections or when building older stable updates.
> So I test for the presence of commits that introduced relevant changes.

Neat idea.  How about this (untested)?

 git rev-list ^HEAD --no-walk commit1 commit2 ...