Re: check if one branch contains another branch

From: Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2020, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+KyZp6CBJse9jRYowgkaRctuRU4mnFz3TVwkKTwkZWkjj3GTA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+KyZp6pvqqNnOOj0ap9ekPdv9mZg2u_NQuwFgMXfwfV17SrYQ@mail.gmail.com>

I tried this:

git checkout origin/dev # now in detached head state git branch --contains "$(git rev-parse "$feature_branch")"

and I got this output: <name of feature branch>

not sure what that means

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:12 PM Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> so it would be:
>
> feature_branch='my_branch'  # the branch that I want to ensure is
> completely merged into origin/dev
> git merge-base  origin/dev --is-ancestor "$feature_branch"
>
> that won't work?  since git merge-base only works with current branch?
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:08 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am looking for a command:
> > >
> > > 1>  if branch x contains branch y
> > >
> > > right now all I can find is
> > >
> > > 2> if current branch contains commit y
> > >
> > > can someone please accomplish #1 ?
> >
> > Study "git merge-base --is-ancestor" perhaps?
>
>
>
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