"git log --first-parent" shows parents that are not first

From: しらいしななこ <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Date: May 11, 2008, 07:03 UTC
Message-ID: <200805110706.m4B76eLE006432@mi0.bluebottle.com>

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> The result given by "git log --first-parent" ('next' version) is
> unexpected to me.
>
>   % git rev-parse origin/next
>   4eddac518225621c3e4f7285beb879d2b4bad38a
>   % git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next
>   4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next
>   1f8115b... Merge branch 'maint'
>   ca1c991... Merge branch 'sg/merge-options' (early part)
>   31a3c6b... Merge branch 'db/learn-HEAD'
>   a064ac1... Merge branch 'jn/webfeed'
>   d576c45... Merge branch 'cc/help'
>   ca1a5ee... Merge branch 'dm/cherry-pick-s'
>   4c4d3ac... Merge branch 'lt/dirmatch-optim'
>   c5445fe... compat-util: avoid macro redefinition warning
>   eb120e6... compat/fopen.c: avoid clobbering the system defined fopen macro
>   bac59f1... Documentation: bisect: add a few "git bisect run" examples
>   d84ae0d... Documentation/config.txt: Add git-gui options
>   921177f... Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples
>   c904bf3... Be more careful with objects directory permissions on clone
>
> I 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:
>
>   % ~/git-v1.5.5/bin/git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next
>   4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next

Could you please revert d9c292e8bbd51c84cb9ecd86cb89b8a1b35a2a82? With that patch reverted from 'next', the problem disappears.

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Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/

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