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Update the documentation for git-merge-base
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Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Fredrik Kuivinen authored and Junio C Hamano committed May 16, 2006
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SYNOPSIS
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'git-merge-base' <commit> <commit>
'git-merge-base' [--all] <commit> <commit>

DESCRIPTION
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"git-merge-base" finds as good a common ancestor as possible. Given a
selection of equally good common ancestors it should not be relied on
to decide in any particular way.

"git-merge-base" finds as good a common ancestor as possible between
the two commits. That is, given two commits A and B 'git-merge-base A
B' will output a commit which is reachable from both A and B through
the parent relationship.

Given a selection of equally good common ancestors it should not be
relied on to decide in any particular way.

The "git-merge-base" algorithm is still in flux - use the source...

OPTIONS
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--all::
Output all common ancestors for the two commits instead of
just one.

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