From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, bfields@fieldses.org,
phil.hord@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:35:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120316173508.GD28004@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331680716-31915-1-git-send-email-nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
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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