From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:41 GMT
Subject: Re: determine if one commit is an ancestor of another
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907091916090.4339@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <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