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Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2015, 15:07 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:46:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Admittedly, that
>> merely is saying that "--first-parent" is not a solution to such a
>> project, and does not say much about the usefulness of the new
>> configuration, so I'd queue it as-is.
>
> Yeah, I agree that this patch does not make a judgement on particular
> workflows, and can stand on its own. I buried a related deep in a
> footnote in my other email, so let me bring it up again here.
>
> I am not entirely convinced this won't bite somebody who gets a sha1
> from some other source, and then wants to run:
>
>   git log $some_other_sha1
>
> who might be quite confused to start a first-parent traversal from
> somewhere other than the tip of "master" or the tip of a topic branch.

Yeah, you actually convinced me reasonably well that it would happen. I'd never use it myself. If people want to shoot themselves in the foot, be my guest ;-)

Perhaps we should drop this, and give a shorter synonym to the option? .

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