--first-parent plus path limiting

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 29, 2008, 08:29 UTC
Message-ID: <479EE405.1010001@viscovery.net>

While trying to find out when builtin-fetch.c was merged into master, I noticed that this:

$ git log --first-parent --pretty=oneline -- builtin-fetch.c

lists b888d61c (Make fetch a builtin), which I did not expect. This one doesn't list it, as expected:

$ git log --first-parent --pretty=oneline

-- Hannes

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