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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: log --graph --first-parent weirdness
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:00:42 +0300
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The output of "git log --graph --first-parent" seems weird. Maybe it's
because I don't understand everything but here's an example anyway:


$ git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --decorate

M   2ba1dba... (refs/heads/master) Merge branch 'topic'
|\  
| * 432e062... (refs/heads/topic) Change from branch 'topic'
* | b762236... Change from branch 'master'
|/  
* d7fb80a... Initial commit


Normal --first-parent prints this:

$ git log --first-parent --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

2ba1dba... Merge branch 'topic'
b762236... Change from branch 'master'
d7fb80a... Initial commit


With --graph it goes:

$ git log --graph --first-parent --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

M   2ba1dba... Merge branch 'topic'
|\  
* | b762236... Change from branch 'master'
* | d7fb80a... Initial commit
 /


So, it prints the second parent line but it leads to nowhere. Try the
same with the git repository and you'll see a _lots_ of parallel branch
lines which seem to go nowhere.