Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to accept more than 2 arguments

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:38:05PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

BTW I seem to recall that get_merge_bases_many() was _not_ the same as 
get_merge_octopus().  Could you please remind me what _many() does?

get_octopus_merge_bases() takes a commit_list, and tries to figure out
the common bases of those commits.

get_merge_bases_many(), which is used by reduce_heads() takes a commit
and a commit_list, and counts the bases of the heads against the commit
specified as the first parameter.

I think get_merge_bases_many() could be even static, it is not really
interesting for anything else than reduce_heads() at the moment.