On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:04:59PM -0800, David Aguilar wrote: > I think you're looking for "git merge-base". > > If you do `git merge-base HEAD origin/master` > and its result is equal to `git rev-parse HEAD` > then you know that master is an ancestor of origin/master > and can be trivially fast-forwarded to origin/master.
In newer versions of git (1.8.0+), you can use "git merge-base --is-ancestor" for this instead. The commit message for 5907cda implies that it is more efficient than the old way. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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