Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:46:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Admittedly, that >> merely is saying that "--first-parent" is not a solution to such a >> project, and does not say much about the usefulness of the new >> configuration, so I'd queue it as-is. > > Yeah, I agree that this patch does not make a judgement on particular > workflows, and can stand on its own. I buried a related deep in a > footnote in my other email, so let me bring it up again here. > > I am not entirely convinced this won't bite somebody who gets a sha1 > from some other source, and then wants to run: > > git log $some_other_sha1 > > who might be quite confused to start a first-parent traversal from > somewhere other than the tip of "master" or the tip of a topic branch. Yeah, you actually convinced me reasonably well that it would happen. I'd never use it myself. If people want to shoot themselves in the foot, be my guest ;-) Perhaps we should drop this, and give a shorter synonym to the option? . -- 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