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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:19:43 -0600
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Frans Pop wrote:

> The use case is a wrapper script for kernel builds in which some variation 
> are needed (due to changes in the build system) when building older 
> kernels, e.g. during bisections or when building older stable updates.
> So I test for the presence of commits that introduced relevant changes.

Neat idea.  How about this (untested)?

 git rev-list ^HEAD --no-walk commit1 commit2 ...