Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM, brian m. carlson
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit
to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it
"parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man
page generator tries to point at.)

Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?

I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward.  If we
get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing
as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most
people understand it pretty well.

For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit"
message, because the repository is in a state where there are no
commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit.