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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: jpaugh@gmx.us, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:37:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21uq9x8q2.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqipjlf309.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:18:14 +0100")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> "the successor of <commit>", OTOH, is not well defined, since there can
> be several successors, and one can't order them reliably (you can't
> really know the set of successors, because they can exist in different
> repositories).

Yet it would be nice to have a concise notation for "the nth successor
of <commit> towards <commit>" (using --first-parent ordering when
ambiguous).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-05 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-04 15:58 Specifying revisions in the future jpaugh
2012-02-05  2:44 ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]   ` <4F2DEF89.4030302@gmx.us>
2012-02-05  3:07     ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 20:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-05 21:37   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-02-05 21:57     ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 22:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 22:24         ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-05 22:58           ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 22:58           ` Philip Oakley
2012-02-05 23:08             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-06  4:28               ` Miles Bader
2012-02-07 21:25                 ` Jonathan Paugh
2012-02-06 11:43               ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-06 12:27                 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-05 21:59     ` Junio C Hamano

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