Merge branch 'cc/merge-base-many'

* cc/merge-base-many:
  git-merge-octopus: use (merge-base A (merge B C D E...)) for stepwise merge
  merge-base-many: add trivial tests based on the documentation
  documentation: merge-base: explain "git merge-base" with more than 2 args
  merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to drive underlying merge_bases_many()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 77de9621d9..d163c7487b 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ int read_graft_file(const char *graft_file);
 struct commit_graft *lookup_commit_graft(const unsigned char *sha1);
 
 extern struct commit_list *get_merge_bases(struct commit *rev1, struct commit *rev2, int cleanup);
+extern struct commit_list *get_merge_bases_many(struct commit *one, int n, struct commit **twos, int cleanup);
 extern struct commit_list *get_octopus_merge_bases(struct commit_list *in);
 
 extern int register_shallow(const unsigned char *sha1);