From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:28:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to accept more than 2 arguments
Message-ID: <20080727152806.GA32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807271631470.5526@eeepc-johanness>

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:38:05PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> BTW I seem to recall that get_merge_bases_many() was _not_ the same as 
> get_merge_octopus().  Could you please remind me what _many() does?

get_octopus_merge_bases() takes a commit_list, and tries to figure out
the common bases of those commits.

get_merge_bases_many(), which is used by reduce_heads() takes a commit
and a commit_list, and counts the bases of the heads against the commit
specified as the first parameter.

I think get_merge_bases_many() could be even static, it is not really
interesting for anything else than reduce_heads() at the moment.