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Re: Specifying revisions in the future

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2012, 21:59 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> "the successor of <commit>", OTOH, is not well defined, since there can
>> be several successors, and one can't order them reliably (you can't
>> really know the set of successors, because they can exist in different
>> repositories).
>
> Yet it would be nice to have a concise notation for "the nth successor
> of <commit> towards <commit>" (using --first-parent ordering when
> ambiguous).

I thought that 47 different people can build on Linux v3.2 and when you ask the children of v3.2^0, you would not know which ones to show in what order, let alone "concise notation to pick one at random among them".

Did you mean --first-child?
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  1. jpaugh@gmx.usFeb 4, 2012
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoyFeb 5, 2012
  4. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  6. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  8. Philip OakleyFeb 5, 2012
  9. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  10. Miles BaderFeb 6, 2012
  11. Jonathan PaughFeb 7, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyFeb 6, 2012
  13. Andreas SchwabFeb 6, 2012
  14. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2012
  16. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012

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