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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: check if one branch contains another branch
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:08:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1rnv2vi2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+KyZp7TELrswPjNgB99BXXHEXi5pRr5bO3g_wy7zBvv1R4Kww@mail.gmail.com> (Alexander Mills's message of "Thu, 7 May 2020 15:59:16 -0700")

Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for a command:
>
> 1>  if branch x contains branch y
>
> right now all I can find is
>
> 2> if current branch contains commit y
>
> can someone please accomplish #1 ?

Study "git merge-base --is-ancestor" perhaps?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07 22:59 check if one branch contains another branch Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-05-07 23:12   ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:15     ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:24     ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-07 23:28       ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:47         ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-07 23:31 ` Randall S. Becker
2020-05-07 23:37   ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-08  1:01     ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-08 12:07       ` Randall S. Becker

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