RE: [PATCH 2/3] merge-base: return fork-point outside reflog

2017-11-08 Thread Ekelhart Jakob
* [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] Sent: Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2017 08:06 To: Michael J Gruber Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; Ekelhart Jakob ; Jeff King ; Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] merge-base: return fork-point outside reflog Junio C Hamano writes: > Michael J Gruber writes: > >&g

RE: merge-base not working as expected when base is ahead

2017-09-13 Thread Ekelhart Jakob
Dear Git, git merge-base --fork-point "master" not working if master is already newer then my current branch. Very oddly it seems to work whenever you had the expected commit checked out previously - what made it very tricky to detect this problem. Example: - Clone "https://github.com/jekelhar