A new option "--fp-only" limits the output to the merge bases that
are on the first-parent chain from the branches being merged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 8 +++++++-
builtin/merge-base.c | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index 808426faac..f99653f138 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
+'git merge-base' [-a|--all] [--fp-only] <commit> <commit>...
'git merge-base' [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>...
'git merge-base' --is-ancestor <commit> <commit>
'git merge-base' --independent <commit>...
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ OPTIONS
--all::
Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one.
+--fp-only::
+ Limit the output to merge bases that are on the first-parent
+ chain from none of the commits given on the command line.
+
+
+
DISCUSSION
----------
diff --git a/builtin/merge-base.c b/builtin/merge-base.c
index c0d1822eb3..42febb20ff 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-base.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-base.c
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
#include "revision.h"
#include "parse-options.h"
-static int show_merge_base(struct commit **rev, int rev_nr, int show_all)
+static int show_merge_base(struct commit **rev, int rev_nr, int show_all, int fp_only)
{
struct commit_list *result;
+ unsigned flags = fp_only ? MB_FPCHAIN : 0;
- result = get_merge_bases_many_dirty(rev[0], rev_nr - 1, rev + 1);
+ result = get_merge_bases_opt(rev[0], rev_nr - 1, rev + 1, flags);
if (!result)
return 1;
@@ -208,10 +209,13 @@ int cmd_merge_base(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
struct commit **rev;
int rev_nr = 0;
int show_all = 0;
+ int fp_only = 0;
int cmdmode = 0;
struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("output all common ancestors")),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "fp-only", &fp_only,
+ N_("limit to bases that are on first-parent chain")),
OPT_CMDMODE(0, "octopus", &cmdmode,
N_("find ancestors for a single n-way merge"), 'o'),
OPT_CMDMODE(0, "independent", &cmdmode,
@@ -255,5 +259,5 @@ int cmd_merge_base(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
ALLOC_ARRAY(rev, argc);
while (argc-- > 0)
rev[rev_nr++] = get_commit_reference(*argv++);
- return show_merge_base(rev, rev_nr, show_all);
+ return show_merge_base(rev, rev_nr, show_all, fp_only);
}
--
2.10.1-631-gb2c64dcf30