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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-04-15 10:38:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-15 10:16:24 -0700 |
| commit | ded7e0491b78e3e8384bcd9f63918c52785c4cd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 36fa3944ecad2dfdd49496f1f4b8ddd0e4e0e432 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5729482429725c4688c678701ca5197eaf367a07 (diff) | |
| download | git-ded7e0491b78e3e8384bcd9f63918c52785c4cd6.tar.gz git-ded7e0491b78e3e8384bcd9f63918c52785c4cd6.tar.xz | |
Restructure documentation for git-merge-base.
Restructure the text of git-merge-base to better explain more clearly
the different modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 28 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index a9f677b8f..3fe510f85 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -23,23 +23,21 @@ 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. -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. +OPERATION MODE +-------------- + +As the most common special case, specifying only two commits on the +command line means computing the merge base between the given two commits. + +More generally, 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 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. - --octopus:: Compute the best common ancestors of all supplied commits, in preparation for an n-way merge. This mimics the behavior @@ -52,6 +50,12 @@ OPTIONS from any other. This mimics the behavior of 'git show-branch --independent'. +OPTIONS +------- +-a:: +--all:: + Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one. + DISCUSSION ---------- |