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Re: determine if one commit is an ancestor of another

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 9, 2009, 17:16 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0907091916090.4339@intel-tinevez-2-302>
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<20090709171351.GA30088@cthulhu>
Hi,
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Larry D'Anna wrote:
> Is there any builtin to do this?  I'm doing it in a perl script now by 
> parsing git log --pretty=raw, but it's pretty slow for a big repository.
test $ancestor = $(git merge-base $ancestor $descendant)

Ciao, Dscho

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