On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Junio C Hamano 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? > > > > test "$(git merge-base HEAD $commit)" = "$(git rev-parse $commit)" > > Great! If the commit ID is not present that only takes 1 sec versus 11 secs > for my test. (If the commit _is_ present and fairly recent my test can be > faster, but 11 secs delay when it's not present hurts more.) Isn't something very wrong if grepping the log output is faster than simple merge-base call? Can you post exact numbers? Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- 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