From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:59:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Message-ID: <7v7h01eybe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m21uq9x8q2.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> 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?