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Re: check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2006, 11:15 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to create "git-amend-commit" to be able to amend commits before
> HEAD. So I need to check whether the commit I'm going to amend is
> ascendent of HEAD. Is there any way to check that?

You can only amend topmost commit in any branch. Anything else would be rewriting history, starting from amended commit upwards in lineage (parentage).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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