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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, 23:41 UTC
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Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:
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> I assume that:
>
> git branch -d  xxx
>
> will prevent a delete if the current branch doesn't contain xxx..
> I don't want to have to checkout  origin/dev in order to run that command,
> that's one part of the problem

In that case, don't you want to learn, not just if your 'dev' has anything that is not merged/accepted by origin/dev, what commits in 'dev' are not yet merged in origin/dev?

 $ git log origin/dev..dev
would show them.
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  8. Randall S. BeckerMay 7, 2020
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  11. Alexander MillsMay 8, 2020
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