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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 00e400353c..ce5b369985 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ commits on the command line. As the most common special case, specifying only two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between the given two commits. +As a consequence, the 'merge base' is not necessarily contained in each of the +commit arguments if more than two commits are specified. This is different +from linkgit:git-show-branch[1] when used with the `--merge-base` option. + OPTIONS ------- -a:: |