diff-lib: define diff_get_merge_base()

In a future commit, we will be using this function to implement
--merge-base functionality in various diff commands.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff.h b/diff.h
index aea0d5b..fedfeab 100644
--- a/diff.h
+++ b/diff.h
@@ -580,6 +580,8 @@ void diff_warn_rename_limit(const char *varname, int needed, int degraded_cc);
  */
 const char *diff_aligned_abbrev(const struct object_id *sha1, int);
 
+void diff_get_merge_base(const struct rev_info *revs, struct object_id *mb);
+
 /* do not report anything on removed paths */
 #define DIFF_SILENT_ON_REMOVED 01
 /* report racily-clean paths as modified */