From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:35:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary
Message-ID: <20120316173508.GD28004@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1331680716-31915-1-git-send-email-nkreitzinger@gmail.com>

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