{"thread":{"id":"13470","subject":"\"git log --first-parent\" shows parents that are not first","startedAt":"2008-05-11T02:23:41Z","lastAt":"2008-05-11T02:23:41Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["しらいしななこ"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"76567","messageId":"20080511112341.6117@nanako3.bluebottle.com","threadId":"13470","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"\"git log --first-parent\" shows parents that are not first","fromName":"しらいしななこ","fromEmail":"nanako3@bluebottle.com","sentAt":"2008-05-11T02:23:41Z","receivedAt":"2008-05-11T02:23:41Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nanako3@lavabit.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3777b9e201c5883a62b1a6fdf7c53f2d712d1d80989146063ea861e33aad72a8?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"The result given by \"git log --first-parent\" ('next' version) is\nunexpected to me.\n\n  % git rev-parse origin/next\n  4eddac518225621c3e4f7285beb879d2b4bad38a\n  % git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next\n  4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next\n  1f8115b... Merge branch 'maint'\n  ca1c991... Merge branch 'sg/merge-options' (early part)\n  31a3c6b... Merge branch 'db/learn-HEAD'\n  a064ac1... Merge branch 'jn/webfeed'\n  d576c45... Merge branch 'cc/help'\n  ca1a5ee... Merge branch 'dm/cherry-pick-s'\n  4c4d3ac... Merge branch 'lt/dirmatch-optim'\n  c5445fe... compat-util: avoid macro redefinition warning\n  eb120e6... compat/fopen.c: avoid clobbering the system defined fopen macro\n  bac59f1... Documentation: bisect: add a few \"git bisect run\" examples\n  d84ae0d... Documentation/config.txt: Add git-gui options\n  921177f... Documentation: improve \"add\", \"pull\" and \"format-patch\" examples\n  c904bf3... Be more careful with objects directory permissions on clone\n\nI asked for the log between one commit before the tip of \"origin/next\" and the tip of the branch, following only the first-parent links.  v1.5.5 is not broken and shows the expected result:\n\n  % ~/git-v1.5.5/bin/git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next\n  4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next\n\n-- \nNanako Shiraishi\nhttp://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nFinally - A spam blocker that actually works.\nhttp://www.bluebottle.com/tag/4\n"}]}