Re: [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x

Jeff King wrote:

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:22:02PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

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But then it will fail to find legitimate merge bases. So yes, you _can_

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Will it?  Can you give me one example where it would find the wrong one?

How about the example I gave already? The first merge-base is E, but
that is not correct for the merge I gave. So you propose an algorithm
which will find A. But now imagine the exact some topology, but there
was no cherry-pick; instead, E' is actually a merge. Wouldn't E be the
right merge-base then?

Indeed.  Q.E.D.
I'll drop the idea with the parentlinks.
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