From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:30:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Implement vc-git-annotate-show-diff-revision-at-line for emacs vc-git
Message-ID: <7voda891jr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1203706693.7552.56.camel@alexjb-desktop.transitives.com>

Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:

> Whats the easiest command to show the parent commit of a given commit id
> (the closest analogy I can think of)? I tried:
>
>  git-show 486a974a --pretty="format:%P"

 * Have rev before option, like "git show --pretty=... 486a974"

 * Use -s to squelch diff output.

You should check how the %P format shows parents for a merge and
decide which parent you would want to follow.