On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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