>> +When the option `--octopus` is given, the result of `git merge-base A B C` >> > +will be '2', because '2' is the common ancestor of all branches. > > Wouldn't it be easier to read if you had the option in the command line, i.e. > > The result of `git merge-base --octopus A B C` is '2' because... > > without "When ... given" that now become noisewords? Yes, that's much better. I included it in the rerolled patch series. > Adding an example use of --octopus to the DISCUSSION section makes a > lot of sense. At first I thought this was being added to the > DESCRIPTION section, which led me to suggest something like the > following: > > [..] > > What do you think? I like it, so I made a patch out of it and sent it to the list. > For what it's worth, except for Junio's wording nitpick and the log message, > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Vincent -- 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