Re: Have git-merge-base support multiple IDs
On Friday 2009-07-31 18:22, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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>Jan Engelhardt venit, vidit, dixit 31.07.2009 17:51:
>> To determine the rebase point (i.e. first commit in a series),
>> one can (ab)use git-merge-base:
>>
>> p=$(git merge-base ab80794f faae2553)
>> git re -i ${p}^
>>
>> The twist is that merge-base in git 1.6.3.3 happens to ignore any
>> further arguments following two IDs. In short:
>>
>> git merge-base A B C...
>>
>> Only yields the merge-base of A and B, and ignores C...
>
>Uhm, are you sure about this?
>The first argument is special. merge-base computes the merge base between two commits:
>- the first argument
>- a (hypothetical) merge between all other arguments.
>It may look a if C was ignored, though.Hm indeed. Is there a better way to find the common ancestor of commits?