On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:51:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In what sense is this "like show-branch --merge-base"? > > The only similarlity I can spot is that it can take more than two heads, > but what it computes and the way it computes it seem to be different. It > certainly looks much less efficient as it does not walk the ancestry chain > in one-go like show-branch does. Exactly. The original idea was to avoid the current limitation: show-branch uses object flags for each branch, which is not something that works if you have a lot of ones.
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