Show all merge-base candidates from show-branch --merge-base

This would make things easier to use for Octopus.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index c947fce..cc7da30 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --merge-base::
        Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the
-       'git-merge-base' command except that it can accept more
-       than two heads.
+       'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept
+       more than two heads.
 
 
 OUTPUT

diff --git a/show-branch.c b/show-branch.c
index 8b37aeb..ccb0c73 100644 (file)
--- a/show-branch.c
+++ b/show-branch.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include "refs.h"
 
 static const char show_branch_usage[] =
-"git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=count] [<refs>...]";
+"git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=count] [--merge-base] [<refs>...]";
 
 #define UNINTERESTING  01
 
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static int show_merge_base(struct commit_list *seen, int num_rev)
 {
        int all_mask = ((1u << (REV_SHIFT + num_rev)) - 1);
        int all_revs = all_mask & ~((1u << REV_SHIFT) - 1);
+       int exit_status = 1;
 
        while (seen) {
                struct commit *commit = pop_one_commit(&seen);
@@ -298,10 +299,11 @@ static int show_merge_base(struct commit_list *seen, int num_rev)
                if (!(flags & UNINTERESTING) &&
                    ((flags & all_revs) == all_revs)) {
                        puts(sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
-                       return 0;
+                       exit_status = 0;
+                       commit->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
                }
        }
-       return 1;
+       return exit_status;
 }
 
 int main(int ac, char **av)