From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:37:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Message-ID: <m21uq9x8q2.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <vpqipjlf309.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> "the successor of <commit>", OTOH, is not well defined, since there can
> be several successors, and one can't order them reliably (you can't
> really know the set of successors, because they can exist in different
> repositories).

Yet it would be nice to have a concise notation for "the nth successor
of <commit> towards <commit>" (using --first-parent ordering when
ambiguous).

Andreas.

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