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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:47:40 +0100
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On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. That would work as:
   git branch --contains <commitid> | grep -q "^\*"

It's a lot slower than Junio's solution though (and even slower than my 
original solution).

Cheers,
FJP