Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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). I am not bold enough to say _exactly_ N places, but you missed at least one more important one. Merge simplification favors the earlier parents over later ones. - 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