On Freitag, 29. August 2008, Thomas Rast wrote: > Johannes Sixt wrote: > > This command does not give the expected result: It reports *two* initial > > commits and one merge; in particular, commit X is reported as initial > > commit. > > > > $ git rev-list --parents --reverse --full-history master -- P2 > > The good news is: the patch really does fix your issue. It also fixes > the test case (which uses the history from the diagram above). And it > passes the test suite. Thanks for picking up the topic and helping out. It does indeed work with my example. I let others comment whether this patch is good. I've no clue how the revision walker machinery works. -- Hannes -- 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