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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:19:39 +0100
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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?

TIA,
FJP