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Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2012, 17:35 UTC
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Hi Neal,
Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
> Add "first parent" to "gitglossary" reference manual page.

Sounds to me like an odd thing to do. The term "first parent" is just a special case of "nth parent" --- if someone is confused by the term, is such a special case definition (rather than a general definition of "nth parent" that explains that the second parent of HEAD is HEAD^2, not HEAD~2) going to help him?

Adding information about the conventional meaning of first-parent history does sound like a reasonable and useful idea, though more as something for gitworkflows than the glossary.

Just my two cents, Jonathan

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  1. Jonathan NiederMar 16, 2012

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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