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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-08 18:55:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-08 18:55:50 -0700 |
| commit | 037c43c68e220739e690540de89a6d5835fefe73 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e201f833fc63e48db6983e45ce2425d884408db /Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | |
| parent | Fix "read-tree -m A B" priming the cache-tree (diff) | |
| parent | Git 1.7.2-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-037c43c68e220739e690540de89a6d5835fefe73.tar.xz | |
Merge remote branch 'ko/master' into jc/read-tree-cache-tree-fix
* ko/master: (2325 commits)
Git 1.7.2-rc2
backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
add missing && to submodule-merge testcase
t/README: document more test helpers
test-date: fix sscanf type conversion
xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
t0006: test timezone parsing
rerere.txt: Document forget subcommand
t/README: proposed rewording...
t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
t/README: Document test_expect_code
t/README: Document test_external*
t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
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Conflicts:
builtin-read-tree.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-merge-base.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 767486c770..ce5b369985 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge SYNOPSIS -------- -'git merge-base' [--all] <commit> <commit>... +'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... DESCRIPTION ----------- -'git-merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use +'git merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is 'better' than another common ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former. A common ancestor that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common @@ -27,8 +27,13 @@ commits on the command line. As the most common special case, specifying only two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between the given two commits. +As a consequence, the 'merge base' is not necessarily contained in each of the +commit arguments if more than two commits are specified. This is different +from linkgit:git-show-branch[1] when used with the `--merge-base` option. + OPTIONS ------- +-a:: --all:: Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one. |