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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:26:22 +0100
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Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:

> 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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