From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:18:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/resend] Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus
Message-ID: <7v39lje8mp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DA80549.5040600@lyx.org>

Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> writes:

>>> +When the option `--octopus` is given, the result of `git merge-base A B C`
>>> > +will be '2', because '2' is the common ancestor of all branches.
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be easier to read if you had the option in the command line, i.e.
>> 
>>     The result of `git merge-base --octopus A B C` is '2' because...
>> 
>> without "When ... given" that now become noisewords?
>
> Yes, that's much better. I included it in the rerolled patch series.

Makes sense.  Will queue both patches.

Thanks, both.