From: Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:05:31 GMT
Subject: What is the scenario for a commit with 3 or more parents
Message-ID: <AANLkTikMRa_LrD2fU9Piv3GW2H0r7Jf_9s5iM0wc9t6s@mail.gmail.com>

I was reading over the Specifying Revisions section in the man entry
gitrevisions. I understand having 2 parent commits with a merge.

I was trying to understand the HEAD^2 style syntax and wondering where
HEAD^3 would be used. From the example diagram, this would be Commit B
but I'm unclear how this would ever happen. Is this some kind of
multi-way merge?

Does git log show the parents in their ordinal order in the "Merge:" line?