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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-08-05 21:21:39 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-08-05 21:21:39 +0000
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@@ -320,11 +320,11 @@ git-merge-base(1) Manual Page
</div>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p><em>git merge-base</em> [--all] &lt;commit&gt; &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p><em>git merge-base</em> [-a|--all] &lt;commit&gt; &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p><em>git-merge-base</em> finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use
+<div class="para"><p><em>git merge-base</em> finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use
in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is <em>better</em> 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 <em>best common
@@ -336,11 +336,17 @@ the first commit argument on the command line; the other commit is a
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.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>As a consequence, the <em>merge base</em> is not necessarily contained in each of the
+commit arguments if more than two commits are specified. This is different
+from <a href="git-show-branch.html">git-show-branch(1)</a> when used with the <tt>--merge-base</tt> option.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="vlist"><dl>
<dt>
+-a
+</dt>
+<dt>
--all
</dt>
<dd>
@@ -414,7 +420,7 @@ it is unspecified which best one is output.</p></div>
</div>
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-Last updated 2009-07-01 02:30:55 UTC
+Last updated 2009-08-05 21:21:15 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>