On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:41:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Actually a quick glance at git-merge, a rather large case...esac after
> that "show-branch --merge-base" tells me that we do not really use the
> output from that operation and instead we check if we are fast-forward
> from all the other heads by iterating over them.  merge-octupos would
> accept it as the base but never looks at it.

I may be wrong but I think it would be still nice to pass a valid base
to the backend, even if _currently_ the only octopus implementation
ignores it.

Actually on "valid" I mean what my original get_octopus_merge_bases()
returned. :-)