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* determine if one commit is an ancestor of another
@ 2009-07-09 17:13 Larry D'Anna
  2009-07-09 17:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
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From: Larry D'Anna @ 2009-07-09 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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

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* Re: determine if one commit is an ancestor of another
  2009-07-09 17:13 determine if one commit is an ancestor of another Larry D'Anna
@ 2009-07-09 17:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
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From: Johannes Schindelin @ 2009-07-09 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Larry D'Anna; +Cc: git

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Larry D'Anna wrote:

> 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.

test $ancestor = $(git merge-base $ancestor $descendant)

Ciao,
Dscho

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