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Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Jun 6, 2017, 01:11 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> 
> > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit
> > to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it
> > "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man
> > page generator tries to point at.)
> 
> Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?

I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward. If we get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most people understand it pretty well.

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