Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov > ... >> Hence, given any particular commit, you're able to trace all of its >> ancestry, but the reverse is not possible. > > That makes sense. I suppose I will have to resort to parsing output > of git-rev-list or something. Thanks for the reminder. I think Konstantin explained why it fundamentally does not make sense to ask "which one is the Nth one after the root". I am not sure how running rev-list and count its output would help, unless you are now solving a different problem (perhaps "find all the ones that are Nth after some root", which does have an answer). -- 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