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Re: check if one branch contains another branch

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Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Date
May 7, 2020, 23:12 UTC
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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:
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> 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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