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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	"Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, <jpaugh@gmx.us>,
	<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:27:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y5sg6ta5.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq62fk89x1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:06 +0100")

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

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> The rule should be to follow the leftmost parent as far as possible.
>
> But then, if --first-parent doesn't reach the commit you want, there may
> be several paths not following --first-parent that reach it. And you'll
> have to invent some more rules to order them.

The leftmost parent is not necessarily the first parent, but the
leftmost parent that still reaches the commit.  It's a depth-first
search: if following the first parent doesn't reach the commit any more,
try again with the second parent.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 12:27 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
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 [this message]
2012-02-05 21:59     ` Junio C Hamano

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