From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:45:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Find commit that referenced a blob first
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYAQwfHZBSVG6ShVO6FCBKVu3CeKJ7ZLsRGVkfV73WmYA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr2jydf6c.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:38 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> > If the given object refers to a blob, it will be described as
> > <commit-ish>:<path>,
> > such that the blob can be found at <path> in the <commit-ish>, which itself
> > describes the first commit in which this blob occurs in a reverse
> > revision walk from HEAD.
>
> You walk from the latest to earlier commit (because there by
> definition can be is no reverse pointer from older to newer commit),

but a "reverse walk from HEAD" produces the commits to us in an order
as if we were walking from earlier to latest?