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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:58:39 +0100
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Nope, still ambiguous:
>
>
>
>   ---X<---*<---.<---A<---.<---M<---
>            \                 /
>             \--.<---B<------/
>
> Is X+3 A or B?  Though '--first-parent + towards N' is I think unambiguous.
                                                   M

X+3->M is A, if A is the leftmost ancestor of M.

Andreas.

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