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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/merge-base.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index eedef1bb1a..a9f677b8f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git merge-base' [-a|--all] [--octopus] <commit> <commit>... +'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... +'git merge-base' [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>... 'git merge-base' --independent <commit>... DESCRIPTION @@ -89,6 +90,9 @@ and the result of `git merge-base A M` is '1'. Commit '2' is also a common ancestor between 'A' and 'M', but '1' is a better common ancestor, because '2' is an ancestor of '1'. Hence, '2' is not a merge base. +The result of `git merge-base --octopus A B C` is '2', because '2' is +the best common ancestor of all commits. + When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one 'best' common ancestor for two commits. For example, with this topology: diff --git a/builtin/merge-base.c b/builtin/merge-base.c index 96dd160731..4f30f1b0c8 100644 --- a/builtin/merge-base.c +++ b/builtin/merge-base.c @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ static int show_merge_base(struct commit **rev, int rev_nr, int show_all) } static const char * const merge_base_usage[] = { - "git merge-base [-a|--all] [--octopus] <commit> <commit>...", + "git merge-base [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...", + "git merge-base [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>...", "git merge-base --independent <commit>...", NULL }; |