diff --dirstat-by-file: count changed files, not lines

diff --git a/git-merge-octopus.sh b/git-merge-octopus.sh
index 645e1147dc886f2b1ca6d2020b44db746b082bf0..1dadbb49666c6d796df76babbfd291a2de4357e4 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-merge-octopus.sh
+++ b/git-merge-octopus.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ do
                exit 2
        esac
 
-       common=$(git merge-base --all $MRC $SHA1) ||
+       common=$(git merge-base --all $SHA1 $MRC) ||
                die "Unable to find common commit with $SHA1"
 
        case "$LF$common$LF" in
@@ -100,14 +100,7 @@ do
                next=$(git write-tree 2>/dev/null)
        fi
 
-       # We have merged the other branch successfully.  Ideally
-       # we could implement OR'ed heads in merge-base, and keep
-       # a list of commits we have merged so far in MRC to feed
-       # them to merge-base, but we approximate it by keep using
-       # the current MRC.  We used to update it to $common, which
-       # was incorrectly doing AND'ed merge-base here, which was
-       # unneeded.
-
+       MRC="$MRC $SHA1"
        MRT=$next
 done