Re: check if one branch contains another branch

[Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>]

Thanks will check that out.

This command does not seem to work :(

> git branch --contains branchB

I do this:

git checkout branchB
git commit --allow-empty -am 'empty commit message'
git checkout dev
git branch --contains branchB  ==> exit code 0
git branch --contains $(git rev-parse branchB)  ==> exit code 0

this seems like a bug or something.  Why wouldn't it exit with 1,
since it obviously does not contain that commit?
This kinda sucks tbh :(





On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:25 PM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
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