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Clarify the "--merge-base" command line option in "git merge-tree".
* en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base:
Documentation/git-merge-tree.adoc: clarify the --merge-base option
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--merge-base=<tree-ish>::
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Instead of finding the merge-bases for <branch1> and <branch2>,
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specify a merge-base for the merge, and specifying multiple bases is
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currently not supported. This option is incompatible with `--stdin`.
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specify a merge-base for the merge. This option is incompatible with
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`--stdin`.
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As the merge-base is provided directly, <branch1> and <branch2> do not need
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to specify commits; trees are enough.
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Specifying multiple bases is currently not supported, which means that when
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merging two branches with more than one merge-base, using this option may
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cause merge results to differ from what `git merge` would compute. This
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can include potentially losing some changes made on one side of the history
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in the resulting merge.
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With this option, since the merge-base is provided directly, <branch1> and
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<branch2> do not need to specify commits; trees are enough.
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-X<option>::
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--strategy-option=<option>::