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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 19 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 09b34b0501..125207ef1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge SYNOPSIS -------- -'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... +'git merge-base' [-a|--all] [--octopus] <commit> <commit>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common ancestor', i.e. a 'merge base'. Note that there can be more than one merge base for a pair of commits. -Among the two commits to compute the merge base from, one is specified by -the first commit argument on the command line; the other commit is a -(possibly hypothetical) commit that is a merge across all the remaining -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. +Unless `--octopus` is given, among the two commits to compute the merge +base from, one is specified by the first commit argument on the command +line; the other commit is a (possibly hypothetical) commit that is a merge +across all the remaining 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 @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one. +--octopus:: + Compute the best common ancestors of all supplied commits, + in preparation for an n-way merge. This mimics the behavior + of 'git show-branch --merge-base'. + DISCUSSION ---------- |