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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2017, 01:00 UTC
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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"?
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