On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:55:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Taking these two together, perhaps squashing this in may be > sufficient. > [...] > diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c > index 2c3da19..9474c37 100644 > --- a/builtin/rev-parse.c > +++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c > @@ -333,8 +333,22 @@ static int try_parent_shorthands(const char *arg) > if (include_rev) > show_rev(NORMAL, sha1, arg); > commit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1); > + > + if (exclude_parent) { > + /* do we have enough parents? */ > + for (parent_number = 0, parents = commit->parents; > + parents; > + parents = parents->next) > + parent_number++; > + if (parent_number < exclude_parent) { > + *dotdot = '^'; > + return 0; > + } > + } I think you can use commit_list_count() to make this a bit shorter, like: if (exclude_parent && commit_list_count(commit->parents) < exclude_parent) { *dotdot = '^'; return 0; } Technically you can drop the first half of the &&, but it is probably a good idea to avoid the traversal when exclude_parent is not in use. Also technically, you can stop counting when you hit exclude_parent (which is only possible with a custom traversal), but it is unlikely enough that it is probably not worth caring about. -Peff