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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. |