Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... >> I think "merge-base -h" will get this for free thanks to parseopt. > > It seems not, or maybe I'm using the wrong terminology; I meant to > include it in the first part of the below. > > usage: git merge-base [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... > or: git merge-base [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>... > or: git merge-base --independent <commit>... > > -a, --all output all common ancestors > --octopus find ancestors for a single n-way merge > --independent list revs not reachable from others > --is-ancestor is the first one ancestor of the other? Ahh. As most of the modern parse-optified ones just say "git cmd <args>" or something like that, I wasn't paying attention to the upper part. Will amend again. Thanks. -- 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