merge-base

vb merge-base [OPTIONS] PRIMARY SECONDARY ...

Description

Find a common ancestor given two or more check-in versions to hypothetically merge.

Options

--ignore-merges

Ignore merges for discovering name pivots

Examples

• Find the common ancestor of two branches

$ vb ci -m "base"
Committed version: 022bce78b23e01382a5c20933fc92fdfef59d97895466450e0b99133bc9db2fb

$ vb ci -m "work on feature/a" --branch feature/a
Committed version: 69cfecf7cde173d7f62e43fe341192269920a9e89a72dea7cc4886bffd56f2f0

$ vb ci -m "work on feature/b" --branch feature/b
Committed version: 0b0aa974c7a2fa296e0cf7cc5926d58e4cfe41df83f9bfeded42c6d15b17482d

$ vb merge-base feature/a feature/b
pivot=69cfecf7cde173d7f62e43fe341192269920a9e89a72dea7cc4886bffd56f2f0