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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: check if one branch contains another branch
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Date:   Thu, 07 May 2020 16:08:53 -0700
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Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for a command:
>
> 1>  if branch x contains branch y
>
> right now all I can find is
>
> 2> if current branch contains commit y
>
> can someone please accomplish #1 ?

Study "git merge-base --is-ancestor" perhaps?