1git-merge-base(1) 2================= 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-merge-base - Finds as good a common ancestor as possible for a merge 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-merge-base' <commit> <commit> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16"git-merge-base" finds as good a common ancestor as possible. Given a 17selection of equally good common ancestors it should not be relied on 18to decide in any particular way. 19 20The "git-merge-base" algorithm is still in flux - use the source... 21 22 23Author 24------ 25Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 26 27Documentation 28-------------- 29Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 30 31GIT 32--- 33Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 34