git merge-base

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Find a common ancestor of two commits.

Options (1)

-a, --allboolean

Print all best common ancestors of two commits

Example: git merge-base {{[-a|--all]}} {{commit_1}} {{commit_2}}

Print the best common ancestor of two commits

git merge-base commit_1 commit_2

Print all best common ancestors of two commits

git merge-base [-a|--all] commit_1 commit_2

Check if a commit is an ancestor of a specific commit

git merge-base --is-ancestor ancestor_commit commit