* Re: [PATCH] Add "first parent" to gitglossary
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@ 2012-03-16 17:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
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From: Jonathan Nieder @ 2012-03-16 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Neal Kreitzinger; +Cc: git, gitster, bfields, phil.hord
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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