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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to accept more
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:37:08 -0700
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> Before this patch "git merge-base" accepted only 2 arguments, so
> only merge bases between 2 references could be computed.
>
> The purpose of this patch is to make "git merge-base" accept more
> than 2 arguments so that the merge bases between the first given
> reference and all the other references can be computed.

I think this is a logical conclusion of merge_bases_many().  You need
tests and docs, though.