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Re: check if one branch contains another branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 7, 2020, 23:08 UTC
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Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:
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> I am looking for a command:
>
> 1>  if branch x contains branch y
>
> right now all I can find is
>
> 2> if current branch contains commit y
>
> can someone please accomplish #1 ?
Study "git merge-base --is-ancestor" perhaps?
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