From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:05:32 GMT
Subject: Re: linux-x86-tip: pilot error?
Message-ID: <20080623160532.GA10540@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20080623151257.GC20902@sigill.intra.peff.net>


* Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > Is there a Git way of finding the common ancestor of a topic branch, 
> > when compared to upstream?
> 
> Try:
> 
>   git merge-base topic upstream

small (and stupid) feature suggestion for git-merge-base.

i was working on a topic branch when i wanted to figure out its base to 
linus/master, and i typed:

  ~/tip> git-merge-base linus
  usage: git-merge-base [--all] <commit-id> <commit-id>

it might make sense to implicitly use the current 'HEAD' as a second, 
default parameter to git-merge-base. (unless i'm missing some particular 
detail about why that would be a bad idea)

	Ingo