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-rw-r--r--Makefile5
-rw-r--r--merge-base.c57
2 files changed, 61 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 92de1cb..871c0bb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ CC=gcc
PROG= update-cache show-diff init-db write-tree read-tree commit-tree \
cat-file fsck-cache checkout-cache diff-tree rev-tree show-files \
- check-files ls-tree
+ check-files ls-tree merge-base
all: $(PROG)
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ check-files: check-files.o read-cache.o
ls-tree: ls-tree.o read-cache.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o ls-tree ls-tree.o read-cache.o $(LIBS)
+merge-base: merge-base.o read-cache.o
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o merge-base merge-base.o read-cache.o $(LIBS)
+
read-cache.o: cache.h
show-diff.o: cache.h
diff --git a/merge-base.c b/merge-base.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36ac420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/merge-base.c
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#include "cache.h"
+#include "revision.h"
+
+/*
+ * This is stupid. We could have much better heurstics, I bet.
+ */
+static int better(struct revision *new, struct revision *old)
+{
+ return new->date > old->date;
+}
+
+static struct revision *common_parent(struct revision *rev1, struct revision *rev2)
+{
+ int i;
+ struct revision *best = NULL;
+
+ mark_reachable(rev1, 1);
+ mark_reachable(rev2, 2);
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_revs ;i++) {
+ struct revision *rev = revs[i];
+ if ((rev->flags & 3) != 3)
+ continue;
+ if (!best) {
+ best = rev;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (better(rev, best))
+ best = rev;
+ }
+ return best;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ unsigned char rev1[20], rev2[20];
+ struct revision *common;
+
+ if (argc != 3 || get_sha1_hex(argv[1], rev1) || get_sha1_hex(argv[2], rev2))
+ usage("merge-base <commit1> <commit2>");
+
+ /*
+ * We will eventually want to include a revision cache file
+ * that "rev-tree.c" has generated, since this is going to
+ * otherwise be quite expensive for big trees..
+ *
+ * That's some time off, though, and in the meantime we know
+ * that we have a solution to the eventual expense.
+ */
+ parse_commit(rev1);
+ parse_commit(rev2);
+
+ common = common_parent(lookup_rev(rev1), lookup_rev(rev2));
+ if (!common)
+ die("no common parent found");
+ printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(common->sha1));
+ return 0;
+}