From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:31:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/resend] Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus
Message-ID: <7vaafvqsu0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DA47A4D.80909@lyx.org>

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

> Sorry for the noise caused by the previous attempt(s). Apparently my attempts
> to let Thunderbird _not wrap_ the lines were counterproductive.

I was wondering what that was about.

> +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?