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Any easy way to represent the first commit in a branch?

Subject: Any easy way to represent the first commit in a branch?

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Ping Yin· May 29, 2010, 03:36 UTC · lore

something like HEAD@root ?

I know i can do it with

git rev-list --reverse --first-parent HEAD | head -1

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