Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:
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But that does not necessarily mean swapping the parent order would
produce the history of a right shape, either, even for those with
the "first-parent chain is the trunk" worldview.
Why not?
I gave detailed write-up in two discussion threads linked already in
this thread from 2013 and 2014; as I said, I do not think we want to
debate that as part of the discussion of this documentation fix.