@@ -280,20 +280,6 @@ rev_exists () {
fi
}
-rev_is_descendant_of_branch () {
- newrev="$1"
- branch="$2"
- branch_hash=$(git rev-parse "$branch")
- match=$(git rev-list -1 "$branch_hash" "^$newrev")
-
- if test -z "$match"
- then
- return 0
- else
- return 1
- fi
-}
-
# if a commit doesn't have a parent, this might not work. But we only want
# to remove the parent from the rev-list, and since it doesn't exist, it won't
# be there anyway, so do nothing in that case.
@@ -811,7 +797,7 @@ cmd_split () {
then
if rev_exists "refs/heads/$branch"
then
- if ! rev_is_descendant_of_branch "$latest_new" "$branch"
+ if ! git merge-base --is-ancestor "$branch" "$latest_new"
then
die "Branch '$branch' is not an ancestor of commit '$latest_new'."
fi