# Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary

1 messages from 2012-03-16 to 2012-03-16. Participants: Jonathan Nieder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29964

## Jonathan Nieder, 2012-03-16 17:35

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary
Message-ID: <20120316173508.GD28004@burratino>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120316173508.GD28004%40burratino
In-Reply-To: <1331680716-31915-1-git-send-email-nkreitzinger@gmail.com>

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Hi Neal,

Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> Add "first parent" to "gitglossary" reference manual page.

Sounds to me like an odd thing to do.  The term "first parent" is just
a special case of "nth parent" --- if someone is confused by the term,
is such a special case definition (rather than a general definition of
"nth parent" that explains that the second parent of HEAD is HEAD^2,
not HEAD~2) going to help him?

Adding information about the conventional meaning of first-parent
history does sound like a reasonable and useful idea, though more as
something for gitworkflows than the glossary.

Just my two cents,
Jonathan

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