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check if a commit is ascendent of a specific commit

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2006, 11:08 UTC
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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?

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