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The previous change introduced the get_branch_base_for_tip() method in commit-reach.c. The motivation of that change was about using a heuristic to deteremine the base branch for a source commit from a list of candidate commit tips. This change makes that algorithm visible to users via a new atom in the 'git for-each-ref' format. This change is very similar to the chang in49abcd21da(for-each-ref: add ahead-behind format atom, 2023-03-20). Introduce the 'is-base:<source>' atom, which will indicate that the algorithm should be computed and the result of the algorithm is reported using an indicator of the form '(<source>)'. For example, using '%(is-base:HEAD)' would result in one line having the token '(HEAD)'. Use the sorted order of refs included in the ref filter to break ties in the algorithm's heuristic. In the previous change, the motivating examples include using an L0 trunk, long-lived L1 branches, and temporary release branches. A caller could communicate the ordered preference among these categories using the input refpecs and avoiding a different sort mechanism. This sorting behavior is tested in the test scripts. It is important to include this atom as a special case to can_do_iterative_format() to match the expectations created inbd98f9774e(ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback, 2023-11-14). The ahead-behind atom was one of the special cases, and this similarly requires using an algorithm across all input refs before starting the format of any single ref. In the test script, the format tokens use colons or lack whitespace to avoid Git complaining about trailing whitespace errors. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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