On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html