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authorVincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>2011-04-15 10:34:03 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-04-15 10:13:52 -0700
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Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus
Unlike plain merge-base, merge-base --octopus only requires at least one commit argument; update the synopsis to reflect that. Add a sentence to the discussion that when --octopus is used, we do expect '2' (the common ansestor across all) as the result. Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index eedef1bb1..a9f677b8f 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: