From: Takuya Noguchi <takninnovationresearch@xxxxxxxxx>
The notation <commit> can be misunderstandable only for commit SHA1,
but merge-base accepts any commit references. Like reflog, the name of
arguments should be <ref> instead of <commit>.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Noguchi <takninnovationresearch@xxxxxxxxx>
---
doc: use 'ref' instead of 'commit' for merge-base arguments
The notation <commit> can be misunderstandable only for commit SHA1, but
merge-base accepts any commit references. Like reflog, the name of
arguments should be <ref> rather than <commit>.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Noguchi takninnovationresearch@xxxxxxxxx
[takninnovationresearch@xxxxxxxxx]
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-719%2Ftnir%2Fmerge-base-supporting-refs-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-719/tnir/merge-base-supporting-refs-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/719
Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 10 +++++-----
builtin/merge-base.c | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index 2d944e0851f..b87528ef269 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ 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] --octopus <commit>...
-'git merge-base' --is-ancestor <commit> <commit>
-'git merge-base' --independent <commit>...
-'git merge-base' --fork-point <ref> [<commit>]
+'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <ref> <ref>...
+'git merge-base' [-a|--all] --octopus <ref>...
+'git merge-base' --is-ancestor <ref> <ref>
+'git merge-base' --independent <ref>...
+'git merge-base' --fork-point <ref> [<ref>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/builtin/merge-base.c b/builtin/merge-base.c
index e3f8da13b69..910916ae0ec 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-base.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-base.c
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ static int show_merge_base(struct commit **rev, int rev_nr, int show_all)
}
static const char * const merge_base_usage[] = {
- N_("git merge-base [-a | --all] <commit> <commit>..."),
- N_("git merge-base [-a | --all] --octopus <commit>..."),
- N_("git merge-base --independent <commit>..."),
- N_("git merge-base --is-ancestor <commit> <commit>"),
- N_("git merge-base --fork-point <ref> [<commit>]"),
+ N_("git merge-base [-a | --all] <ref> <ref>..."),
+ N_("git merge-base [-a | --all] --octopus <ref>..."),
+ N_("git merge-base --independent <ref>..."),
+ N_("git merge-base --is-ancestor <ref> <ref>"),
+ N_("git merge-base --fork-point <ref1> [<ref2>]"),
NULL
};
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int cmd_merge_base(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
OPT_CMDMODE(0, "is-ancestor", &cmdmode,
N_("is the first one ancestor of the other?"), 'a'),
OPT_CMDMODE(0, "fork-point", &cmdmode,
- N_("find where <commit> forked from reflog of <ref>"), 'f'),
+ N_("find where <ref2> forked from reflog of <ref1>"), 'f'),
OPT_END()
};
base-commit: 2d2118b814c11f509e1aa76cb07110f7231668dc
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