Re: Specifying revisions in the future

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] writes:

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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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