Re: git log and --first-parent

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

tisdag 24 juli 2007 skrev Robin Rosenberg:
> 
> I'm puzzled over the behavior of --first-parent. The documentations seems to imply
> that only the first parent is followed, but when a filter is applied it seems (just guessing)
> that the "first" parent is selected *after* filtering, a behaviour that I feel does not match
> the documentation.
> 
> Should the first-parent filter be applied first.
> 
> Example:
> 
> 	git log --first-parent --pretty=format: --name-only v1.5.2|grep ^var.c|wc -l
> 
> counts four commits where var.c was changed, while
> 
> 	git log --first-parent --pretty=format: --name-only v1.5.2 -- var.c |wc -l
> 
> gives me 23. 
> 
> -- robin

Now, I also realize fast-forwards means --first-parent may not be as useful as I first
hoped.

-- robin