From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Message-ID: <E1Na9ca-0004x2-Gf@xyzzy.farnsworth.org>
In-Reply-To: <201001271426.06844.elendil@planet.nl>

> >  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.

I've been using the following.  It produces output only if the commit
is NOT in HEAD.

git rev-list -1 ^HEAD commitID

-Dale