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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: log --graph --first-parent weirdness
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:08:26 +0300
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Teemu Likonen wrote (2008-06-04 18:00 +0300):

> $ 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.

And by the way, I'm pretty sure that some earlier log --graph version
printed only this with --first-parent:

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