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Hi,

first, thanks for the --root idea ;-)

> BTW. what is best way of checking if given revision is parent-less?

I think count the number of parents is quite sane.

In sequencer I have:
	count_parents() {
		git cat-file commit "$1" | sed -n -e '1,/^$/p' | grep -c '^parent'
	}

Regards,
  Stephan

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