Re: when to use "bk gca"?

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]>
>   undoubtedly a silly question, but when would one use "bk gca" to
> find the greatest common ancestor?  when merging two different
> branches of a repo, or what?
> 
>   is there a practical example i can look at to see when i'd use that?
> thanks.

No.  There is no reason you would need this normally because bk
handles all these details automatically when doing merging.

It is a hard call.  We have many many little functions like this that
are helpful to us when debugging or when writing GUI applications.

If we document them people get confused why, if we don't then people
complain that we have hidden features.

If you are writing an introduction document, the I recommend not
trying to list every possible command but just what is needed to get
your job done.

-Wayne
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