Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is the code guaranteed to return a least common ancestor? If that is > the case we should probably mention it in the documentation. Unfortunately, no, if you mean by "least common" closest to the tips. See the big illustration at the top of the source for how you can construct pathological case to defeat an attempt to guarantee such. --all guarantees that the output contains all interesting ones, but does not guarantee the output has no suboptimal merge bases. - : 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