Don't use --fork-point to determine merge base (#1001)
Don't use --fork-point to determine merge base (#1001)

* Don't use --fork-point to determine merge base

It turns out that the --fork-point option is subtle and error-prone.  Its
intent is not to show the nearest common base commit, but rather the commit
on a branch that the HEAD (in this case) was originally forked off of,
_whether it is currently part of the history of the specified branch or not_
(this can happen if the branch is rewritten).  The option also relies on the
presence of the fork point in the reflog for the branch, which can be
discarded in the course of a "git gc".

It is fairly easy to construct a case where the use of --fork-point causes an
error and outputs nothing.  In fact, I discovered the problem as a result of
this occuring spontaneously on one of my own branches (likely related to a
rebase).  Since the fork-point is empty, we end up diffing against the index
instead of the common commit.

This may have been a factor in some of the unrelated reformatting that we've
seen in past PRs.

Change this to a simple "merge-base origin/master HEAD", which outputs the
commit id of the most recent common base revision.

This change also quotes the forkPoint variable, which likely would have
resulted in an error in this case instead of silently producing the wrong
output.

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