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From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
Subject: determine if one commit is an ancestor of another
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:13:51 -0400
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Is there any builtin to do this?  I'm doing it in a perl script now by parsing
git log --pretty=raw, but it's pretty slow for a big repository.

    --larry