Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Jul 24, 2015, 07:23 UTC
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- <20150724072325.GC2111@peff.net>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:46:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Admittedly, that > merely is saying that "--first-parent" is not a solution to such a > project, and does not say much about the usefulness of the new > configuration, so I'd queue it as-is.
Yeah, I agree that this patch does not make a judgement on particular workflows, and can stand on its own. I buried a related deep in a footnote in my other email, so let me bring it up again here.
I am not entirely convinced this won't bite somebody who gets a sha1 from some other source, and then wants to run:
git log $some_other_sha1
who might be quite confused to start a first-parent traversal from somewhere other than the tip of "master" or the tip of a topic branch.
-Peff