Re: [PATCH/resend] Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus

Vincent van Ravesteijn [off-list ref] writes:

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+When the option `--octopus` is given, the result of `git merge-base A B C`

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+will be '2', because '2' is the common ancestor of all branches.

Wouldn't it be easier to read if you had the option in the command line, i.e.

    The result of `git merge-base --octopus A B C` is '2' because...

without "When ... given" that now become noisewords?

Yes, that's much better. I included it in the rerolled patch series.

Makes sense.  Will queue both patches.

Thanks, both.