I have lost somewhere among many emails in this thread the email I wanted to reply to, the one mentioning for the first time the lack of parents ordering in GIT, but this one should do. Petr Baudis wrote: > The lack of parents ordering in Git is directly connected with > fast-forwarding. There are exactly _two_ places where Git treats first parent specially (correct me if I'm wrong). First, <commit-ish>^ is shortcut for <commit-ish>^1, i.e. for first parent of commit. <commit-ish>~<n> is shortcut for <commit-ish>^^...^ (n-times '^'), which means that <commit-ish>~<n> is n-th parent in 1st-parent lineage of <commit-ish>. But you can always use names like for example next~12^2^^2~2. Second, git-diff with only one <commit-ish> generates diff to first parent. But you can always use '-c' or '-cc' combined diff format or '-m' with default diff format to compare to _all_ parents. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: 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