Determining commit reachability

From: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2010, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <4C83FEC3.3040101@gmail.com>

Given commit C, refs (branches) R, S and T what would be the best way to test whether 'C' is reachable from any of the heads?

Checking if `git rev-list -n1 O ^R ^S ^T` produces any output is what i came up with; is there a better (ie faster) solution?

artur

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