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| author | Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> | 2009-08-05 11:59:19 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-08-05 21:28:05 +0400 |
| commit | 995bdc73fe0e28d622af0897440f0ea298345585 (patch) | |
| tree | b63d21fb26cd87f2b2ea741898df76007d96ae42 /Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | |
| parent | 30ca4ca7b25082574d93b3a6d46a966d39de0488 (diff) | |
git-merge-base/git-show-branch: Cleanup documentation and usage
Make sure that usage strings and documentation coincide with each other
and with the actual code.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-merge-base.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-base.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 767486c770..00e400353c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge SYNOPSIS -------- -'git merge-base' [--all] <commit> <commit>... +'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... DESCRIPTION ----------- -'git-merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use +'git merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is 'better' than another common ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former. A common ancestor that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ the given two commits. OPTIONS ------- +-a:: --all:: Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one. |