Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> But that does not necessarily mean swapping the parent order would >> produce the history of a right shape, either, even for those with >> the "first-parent chain is the trunk" worldview. > > Why not? I gave detailed write-up in two discussion threads linked already in this thread from 2013 and 2014; as I said, I do not think we want to debate that as part of the discussion of this documentation fix.