On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:38 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If the given object refers to a blob, it will be described as > > <commit-ish>:<path>, > > such that the blob can be found at <path> in the <commit-ish>, which itself > > describes the first commit in which this blob occurs in a reverse > > revision walk from HEAD. > > You walk from the latest to earlier commit (because there by > definition can be is no reverse pointer from older to newer commit), but a "reverse walk from HEAD" produces the commits to us in an order as if we were walking from earlier to latest?
