From d9a680acf68caef16b5f316ed7917d8160d3578a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:09:58 -0500
Subject: merge script: handle many-way octopus

Based on v1.6.0-rc0~51^2~5 (Build in merge, 2008-07-07).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh b/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
index 91e33a3..410fa3c 100755
--- a/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
+++ b/contrib/examples/git-merge.sh
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ case "$#" in
 	common=$(git merge-base --all $head "$@")
 	;;
 *)
-	common=$(git show-branch --merge-base $head "$@")
+	common=$(git merge-base --all --octopus $head "$@")
 	;;
 esac
 echo "$head" >"$GIT_DIR/ORIG_HEAD"
@@ -528,9 +528,9 @@ if test '' != "$result_tree"
 then
     if test "$allow_fast_forward" = "t"
     then
-        parents=$(git show-branch --independent "$head" "$@")
+	parents=$(git merge-base --independent "$head" "$@")
     else
-        parents=$(git rev-parse "$head" "$@")
+	parents=$(git rev-parse "$head" "$@")
     fi
     parents=$(echo "$parents" | sed -e 's/^/-p /')
     result_commit=$(printf '%s\n' "$merge_msg" | git commit-tree $result_tree $parents) || exit
-- 
cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6