determine if one commit is an ancestor of another

["Larry D'Anna" <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any builtin to do this?  I'm doing it in a perl script now by parsing
git log --pretty=raw, but it's pretty slow for a big repository.

    --larry
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