From: Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:52 GMT
Subject: Re: first parent, commit graph layout, and pull merge direction
Message-ID: <1639906933.2666673.1369303672919.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5WqYPYnU=YoCa2gMzcJCxeNbFmFgfWnHh=+HuouXLLsxg@mail.gmail.com>


----- Mail original -----
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> > ...
> >> Don't do that, then.
> >
> > :-) Problem is, in this case 'I' expands to about
> >     1<<7 people I need to educate on this.
> 
> This is a feature of `git pull` that I really despise.  I really wish
> `git pull` treated the remote as the first parent in its merge
> operation.
> 

seconded...

github's network pages (which display the commit graph of projects) seems to follow the "first parent at the top" rule and the pull merges are standing out as "wrong" because of that...