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Any easy way to represent the first commit in a branch?

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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
May 29, 2010, 03:36 UTC
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something like HEAD@root ?
I know i can do it with
git rev-list --reverse --first-parent HEAD | head -1
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  1. Ping YinMay 29, 2010

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