Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > That commit aed06b9 can also be described as > > v3.13-rc7~9^2~14^2~42 > > so describing it as 'v4.6-rc1~9^2~792' is clearly not closer in any way. I seem to recall that name-rev had an unexplained heuristics to strongly avoid following second parent changes (I see two ^2 in the path from 3.13-rc7 above). > However did git decide to use that further-away name? That looks odd. > > I'm wondering if it's because of the new root commit we have, and that > confuses the distance calculation somehow? That came in somewhat > recently (mid March) with the GPIO pull. -- 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