Re: jk/tag-contains: stalled

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

I agree it's a pretty generic name. I was trying to make this as generic
as possible, at least within the domain of commits, so it could be a
faster replacement for calls to is_descendant_of. Maybe commit_contains?

I'm going to side-track this slightly. I wonder why branch and tag
have --contains, but it is not more generically available via
rev-list?  I needed it the other day and spent 5 minutes looking at
what it would take before I ended up just calling merge-base in a loop
for the commits I wanted to check.

j.