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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> That commit aed06b9 can also be described as
>
>     v3.13-rc7~9^2~14^2~42
>
> so describing it as 'v4.6-rc1~9^2~792' is clearly not closer in any way.

I seem to recall that name-rev had an unexplained heuristics to
strongly avoid following second parent changes (I see two ^2 in the
path from 3.13-rc7 above).

> However did git decide to use that further-away name? That looks odd.
>
> I'm wondering if it's because of the new root commit we have, and that
> confuses the distance calculation somehow? That came in somewhat
> recently (mid March) with the GPIO pull.