git-merge-base/git-show-branch --merge-base: Documentation and test

Currently, the documentation suggests that 'git merge-base -a' and 'git
show-branch --merge-base' are equivalent (in fact it claims that the
former cannot handle more than two revs).

Alas, the handling of more than two revs is very different. Document
this by tests and correct the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael J Gruber
2009-08-05 09:59:20 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 995bdc73fe
commit f621a8454d
4 changed files with 16 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ int cmd_show_branch(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "sha1-name", &sha1_name,
"name commits with their object names"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "merge-base", &merge_base,
"act like git merge-base -a"),
"show possible merge bases"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "independent", &independent,
"show refs unreachable from any other ref"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "topo-order", &lifo,