Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] name-rev: avoid naming from a ref if it’s not a descendant of any commit

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> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:11 PM Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A ref may not be the descendant of all of the commits mentionned in
> > stdin.  In this case, we want to avoid naming its parents.
>
> Properly speaking a ref usually just points to a commit. It is not a
> parent or a descendant of any commit.
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> Also if the commit, let's call it C, pointed to by a ref isn't a
> descendant of a commit, let's call it C', mentioned on stdin, then C'
> isn't a parent of C, though I think we want to avoid naming C' from
> the ref.
>
> I think it might be clearer with something like:
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> "The commit, let's call it C, pointed to by a ref may not be a
> descendant of all the commits mentioned on stdin. In this case we want
> to avoid naming the commits mentioned on stdin that are not parents of
> C using the ref."