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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:39:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001271639.44167.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Na9ca-0004x2-Gf@xyzzy.farnsworth.org>

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> I've been using the following.  It produces output only if the commit
> is NOT in HEAD.
>
> git rev-list -1 ^HEAD commitID

Nice. That does work.

Returns 0 in both cases and you'd need to allow for nonexisting commit IDs, 
so you'd get:
   test -z "$(git rev-list -1 ^HEAD <commit id> 2>/dev/null)"

Time needed looks to be slightly faster than Junio's test.

Thanks,
FJP

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-27  7:19 Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch Frans Pop
2010-01-27  7:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-27  8:36   ` Frans Pop
2010-01-27 10:19     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-01-27 13:26       ` Frans Pop
2010-01-27 15:15         ` Dale Farnsworth
2010-01-27 15:39           ` Frans Pop [this message]
2010-01-27 15:08     ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-27 15:27       ` Frans Pop
2010-01-27  8:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-01-27  8:47   ` Frans Pop
2010-01-27  8:56 ` Johannes Schindelin

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