Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > "the successor of <commit>", OTOH, is not well defined, since there can
> > be several successors, and one can't order them reliably (you can't
> > really know the set of successors, because they can exist in different
> > repositories).
>
> Yet it would be nice to have a concise notation for "the nth successor
> of <commit> towards <commit>" (using --first-parent ordering when
> ambiguous).
First, "the nth successor"... from which refs? Commit objects have
pointers in one direction only, from commit to its ancestors (earlier
commits).
Second, `--first-parent' won't help here. Take for example the
following situation:
---X<---*<---.<---A
\
\--.<---B
X+3 is A or B? Note that pointers point _to_ '*' commit, so there is
not first or second here - no natural ordering like in the case of
commit parents.
--
Jakub Narebski
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