From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:37:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to accept more than 2 arguments
Message-ID: <7vzlo5mfbf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080726055920.3a2fc8e7.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> Before this patch "git merge-base" accepted only 2 arguments, so
> only merge bases between 2 references could be computed.
>
> The purpose of this patch is to make "git merge-base" accept more
> than 2 arguments so that the merge bases between the first given
> reference and all the other references can be computed.

I think this is a logical conclusion of merge_bases_many().  You need
tests and docs, though.