Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

From: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2017, 01:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJZjrdWoK__rZVCG3vRSSEOPgxK7b_wWjpJ3YUQcLxw+J8KfGQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170606011151.qe5ycih77vqlqgme@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>>
>> > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit
>> > to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it
>> > "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man
>> > page generator tries to point at.)
>>
>> Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?
>
> I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward.  If we
> get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing
> as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most
> people understand it pretty well.

For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" message, because the repository is in a state where there are no commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit.