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Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Jan 27, 2010, 08:26 UTC
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Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
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> I'm currently using the following command for this:
>    git log --pretty=format:%H | grep -q '^<commit id>"
>
> Problem is that with large repos that can be quite slow.
>
> Is there a faster way to do the test?

Not answering the question exactly, but "git branch --contains <commitid>" does almost this and a bit more.

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Matthieu Moy
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