git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Specifying revisions in the future

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Feb 6, 2012, 11:43 UTC
Message-ID
<vpq62fk89x1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To
<m2obtcx4i2.fsf@igel.home>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> The rule should be to follow the leftmost parent as far as possible.

But then, if --first-parent doesn't reach the commit you want, there may be several paths not following --first-parent that reach it. And you'll have to invent some more rules to order them.

Sure, that's not impossible, but is the complexity really worth it?
-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
Previous: Jonathan PaughNext: Andreas Schwab
Message 12 of 16 in “Specifying revisions in the future”
  1. jpaugh@gmx.usFeb 4, 2012
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoyFeb 5, 2012
  4. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  6. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012
  8. Philip OakleyFeb 5, 2012
  9. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  10. Miles BaderFeb 6, 2012
  11. Jonathan PaughFeb 7, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyFeb 6, 2012
  13. Andreas SchwabFeb 6, 2012
  14. Andreas SchwabFeb 5, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2012
  16. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2012

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.