Re: git-fetch will leave a ref pointing to a tag

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:01:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

If it is only the test, you can do that by

	test $(git merge-base foo bar) = $(git rev-parse foo)

I had thought that calculating the merge base was actually slightly less
efficient in this case, since it will actually find all of the merge
bases (but I could very well be wrong). But really, either should
produce the result effectively instantaneously.

(which tests if foo is a stricth ancestor of bar). Although in your 
(linux@horizon.com's) place I would really look at "git log foo.." myself, 
as peff almost suggested.

Yes. In fact, I find an even more useful operation in that case to be
"gitk foo..." to see "where I'm at" with respect to my changes and
upstream changes.

-Peff