From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:41:01 GMT
Subject: Re: odd name-rev behavior?
Message-ID: <7vr518sjyq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111116014842.GF27706@comcast.net>

Tim Walberg <twalberg@comcast.net> writes:

> That does indeed seem to work on first try. Not sure it was
> a particularly critical issue - just unexpected.

I didn't think it is particularly critical, either, and that is why I said
it has been like this for eons at least since v1.6.0.

And it turns out that this was pretty much from day one of name-rev at
bd321bc (Add git-name-rev, 2005-10-26).