Re: Specifying revisions in the future

Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] writes:

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

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"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).

I thought that 47 different people can build on Linux v3.2 and when you
ask the children of v3.2^0, you would not know which ones to show in what
order, let alone "concise notation to pick one at random among them".

Did you mean --first-child?