On Friday 2009-07-31 18:22, Michael J Gruber wrote: >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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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