From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:26:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Message-ID: <201001271426.06844.elendil@planet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20100127101943.GA4470@progeny.tock>

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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 ...

Does not seem to work. But I'd be interested if you find a variant that 
does as it's very fast.

Thanks,
FJP