From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:06:01 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: git pull --rebase on detatched head prints a lot of usage warnings
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Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

> I also think it fixes, but I wonder if it's the best fix. One thing is
> that show-branch is an ancillary command, and not a plumbing command
> (but there is already a call to show-branch, but it should probably be
> change to merge-base now that it handles three commit as arguments).

Are you sure "show-branch --merge-base A B C" and "merge-base A B C" are
meant to compute the same thing?

I do not think ancillary necessarily means Porcelain, but that is a
separate issue.