Re: Testing if a certain commit is in the current branch

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Frans Pop [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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