From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit
Message-ID: <7v64dlkait.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061111192321.GJ4862@socrates.priv>

Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> writes:

> 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 ;-).
>
> Or antecedent.

Sorry, there is no "or" here -- check our documentation ;-).