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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: check if one branch contains another branch
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 23:24:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507232448.GB7234@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+KyZp6pvqqNnOOj0ap9ekPdv9mZg2u_NQuwFgMXfwfV17SrYQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2020-05-07 at 23:12:09, Alexander Mills wrote:
> so it would be:
> 
> feature_branch='my_branch'  # the branch that I want to ensure is
> completely merged into origin/dev
> git merge-base  origin/dev --is-ancestor "$feature_branch"
> 
> that won't work?  since git merge-base only works with current branch?

No, that's not the case.  You can write this:

  git merge-base --is-ancestor $feature_branch origin/dev

This works from any branch and exits 0 if the branch is in origin/dev
and 1 if it is not.  In neither case does it print anything.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07 22:59 check if one branch contains another branch Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-07 23:12   ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:15     ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:24     ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-05-07 23:28       ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:47         ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-07 23:31 ` Randall S. Becker
2020-05-07 23:37   ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-07 23:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-08  1:01     ` Alexander Mills
2020-05-08 12:07       ` Randall S. Becker

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