Re: Howto get the merge-base ?

["Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@gmail.com>]

On 5/14/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to know which commit it the parent of a merge.
> > For exemple if I do that :
> >
> >   o Merge
> >  / \
> > /   \
> > |   |
> > |   o Commit D
> > |   |
> > |   o Commit C
> > |   |
> > o   | Commit B
> > \  /
> >  \/
> >  o Commit A
> >  |
> >  o Init
> >
> > How could I know that ``Commit A'' is the merge-base of ``Merge'' ?
>
> > I try to get this git-merge-base but result is strange and quiet
> > mysterious as he return me always second args I passed to.
>
> It is mysterious to me because you did not say what you gave as
> arguments ;-).

I was using git-merge-base ``merge-ish'' ``comit-ish''. Docs about it
is atrocious so was trying many but not the one good. Blam me.

> If I am reading you correctly, you already have a "Merge"
> commit, made by you or somebody else, and are trying to figure
> out where the merge base was.  If that is the case:
>
>         git-merge-base Merge^1 Merge^2
>
> in other words
>
>         git-merge-base CommitB CommitD

That's ok :)

> is what you are looking for?

Yes ! Thanks :)

> But what do you need that information for?  To reproduce
> somebody else's merge?

No, that's just on the following of git-send-mail-commit.sh thread (or
something near). To make a readable merge mail with diffstat and
summury.

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