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author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-08-05 21:21:39 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-08-05 21:21:39 +0000 |
commit | fd9274d4a1afb62d888e84717c5f0e67850fc96a (patch) | |
tree | ccb7a2a797999c806efe4f173d344e06856c4ad2 /git-merge-base.html | |
parent | bacccdab7c8f70ad9471c1b7143b08a0831f2348 (diff) | |
download | git-htmldocs-fd9274d4a1afb62d888e84717c5f0e67850fc96a.tar.gz |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.4-53-g3f55e
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diff --git a/git-merge-base.html b/git-merge-base.html index 19ce892c2..37f9f4746 100644 --- a/git-merge-base.html +++ b/git-merge-base.html @@ -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] <commit> <commit>…</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p><em>git merge-base</em> [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>…</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>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2009-07-01 02:30:55 UTC
+Last updated 2009-08-05 21:21:15 UTC
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</div>
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