"Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to know which commit it the parent of a merge. > For exemple if I do that : > > o Merge > / \ > / \ > | | > | o Commit D > | | > | o Commit C > | | > o | Commit B > \ / > \/ > o Commit A > | > o Init > > How could I know that ``Commit A'' is the merge-base of ``Merge'' ? > I try to get this git-merge-base but result is strange and quiet > mysterious as he return me always second args I passed to. It is mysterious to me because you did not say what you gave as arguments ;-). If I am reading you correctly, you already have a "Merge" commit, made by you or somebody else, and are trying to figure out where the merge base was. If that is the case: git-merge-base Merge^1 Merge^2 in other words git-merge-base CommitB CommitD is what you are looking for? But what do you need that information for? To reproduce somebody else's merge? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html