Take a look at complexity of that explanation. And the need for additional commit. That balanced against all the headaches of having connectivity header other than "parent". Perhaps it would be better (and easier) just to say note prior parent^1 or note prior <sha1> repeating <sha1> found in parent. Just a thought. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html